The present study examines workers' responses to the post-communist transition in the Russian Federation from 1989 through 1993. It considers how workers defined, articulated, and organized around their interests under conditions of simultaneous democratization and economic reform, focusing on: the impacts of reform, particularly declining real wages and employment security; labor strikes, including incidence, demands, and settlement; activities of trade unions; political and electoral behavior of workers and unions. The study concludes that strikes and trade union activism have had a limited impact in shielding workers from the effects of shock therapy; that unions are divided and relatively weak; and that labor exercises no coherent influence in electoral politics.
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March 1995
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March 01 1995
Workers in the Russian Federation: Responses to the Post-communist Transition, 1989-1993
Linda J. Cook
Linda J. Cook
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Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
* Research for this project was supported by a grant from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research (Contract No. 807-24.) The Council's sponsorship is gratefully acknowledged.
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* Research for this project was supported by a grant from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research (Contract No. 807-24.) The Council's sponsorship is gratefully acknowledged.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies (1995) 28 (1): 13–42.
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Linda J. Cook; Workers in the Russian Federation: Responses to the Post-communist Transition, 1989-1993. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 March 1995; 28 (1): 13–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-067X(95)00003-8
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