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Worker Protests in Post-Communist Romania and Ukraine: Striking with Tied Hands
Mihai Varga
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Description for Worker Protests in Post-Communist Romania and Ukraine: Striking with Tied Hands
Hardcover. Studies why and how successful forms of workers' interest representation could emerge in a hostile, post-communist context Num Pages: 240 pages, Tables, black & white|Illustrations, black & white|Line drawings, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 1DVWR; 3JJPR; 3JM; JPWF; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine is a book about strategies of trade unions confronting employers in difficult conditions. The book’s main idea is to study why and how successful forms of workers’ interest representation could emerge in a hostile context. The post-communist context makes it difficult for workers and trade unions to mobilise, pose threats to employers, and break out of their political isolation, but even under such harsh conditions strategy matters for defending workers’ rights and living standards. The cases studied in this book are 18 conflict episodes at 10 privatised plants in the Romanian steel industry ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719091124
SKU
9780719091124
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About Mihai Varga
Mihai Varga is Senior Researcher at the Eastern Europe Institute, Freie Universität Berlin -- .
Reviews for Worker Protests in Post-Communist Romania and Ukraine: Striking with Tied Hands
‘Varga’s book is first and foremost a package of case studies and is excellent in presenting and comparing these cases.’ Teppo Eskelinen, Department of social sciences and philosophy, University of Jyväskylä
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