ABOUT THIS BOOK

Paul Kubicek offers a comparative study of organized labor's fate in four postcommunist countries, and examines the political and economic consequences of labor's weakness. He notes that with few exceptions, trade unions have lost members and suffered from low public confidence. Unions have failed to act while changing economic policies have resulted in declining living standards and unemployment for their membership.

While some of labor's problems can be traced to legacies of the communist period, Kubicek draws upon the experience of unions in the West to argue that privatization and nascent globalization are creating new economic structures and a political playing field hostile to organized labor. He concludes that labor is likely to remain a marginalized economic and political force for the foreseeable.

REVIEWS

“A much needed study of the fate of organized labor in countries that once regarded themselves as defenders of the international working class. The analysis is clearly presented and compelling, and the stories are interesting and well-researched.”
--Russian Review

“A much needed study of the fate of organized labor in countries that once regarded themselves as defenders of the international working class. The analysis is clearly presented and compelling, and the stories are interesting and well-researched.”
--Industrial and Labor Relations Review

“Well researched . . . well organized, and written in a manner which the reader does not find difficult to understand. I would highly recommend this work to scholars with an interest in Eastern Europe, especially to those with an interest in contemporary problems of post-Communist countries.”
--The Polish Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Contents
List of Tables	000
Preface	000
List of Abbreviations	000
1. Civil Society, Trade Unions, and the Political Economy of Postcommunist Transformation	000
2. The Postcommunist Inheritance	000
3. East Meets West	000
4. Organized Labor in Poland	000
5. Organized Labor in Russia	000
6. Organized Labor in Hungary	000
7. Organized Labor in Ukraine	000
8. Conclusion	000
Notes	000
Bibliography	000
Index	000

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