After almost a decade of passivity, Russian workers are once again striking. For the first time since the 1990s, labor unrest has spread across the country, affecting foreign and domestic investors, well-to-do industrial and natural-resource enterprises and infrastructural installations. But unlike in the 1990s, these strikes have accompanied an economic boom, suggesting that patterns of Russian labor unrest are beginning to resemble those in other countries. Analysis of several recent strikes, meanwhile, suggests the early emergence of a new labor proto-movement, characterized by feelings of entitlement and injustice that stem in part from government rhetoric, while pushed into opposition by the state’s refusal to accommodate genuine labor mobilization.
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October 29 2009
Politics, justice and the new Russian strike
Samuel A. Greene,
Samuel A. Greene
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a London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK
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Graeme B. Robertson
Graeme B. Robertson
b Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, 361 Hamilton Hall, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2010) 43 (1): 73–95.
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Samuel A. Greene, Graeme B. Robertson; Politics, justice and the new Russian strike. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 March 2010; 43 (1): 73–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2009.10.009
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