Sue Eugène

2001 · ref. 6466 — Palgrave Macmillan 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover xiii 178 pages NOT ex-library. Minor traces of erased pencil writing on the front blank endpaper else internally very good: clean with unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps firmly bound. In a good moderately shelfworn dust jacket. -- As the Soviet Union collapsed many scholars and policymakers predicted that the pillars of Communism would collapse along with the state. The official trade unions not only continued to exist but gained power in the late Soviet and post-Soviet period. Sue Davis explains the reasons why the official trade unions survive and thrive and new independent unions remain small and weak despite massive Western assistance. She examines many factors ranging from state policy to labour power in the late Soviet period as well as the first five years of the post-Soviet era in Russia and Ukraine. -- Contents: Glossary; Theoretical Framework; Institutional Change and Institutional Formation: the Case of Trade Unions a Model of Trade Union Leaders' Decisions to Choose "voice" or "exit"; Soviet Legacy and State-society Relations: the Case of Trade Unions; Institutional Change Under Gorbachev: Coal Miners' and Railroad Workers' Unions; State-society Relations in Post-Soviet Systems: Trade Unions in Russia Incentives and Constraints in New Union Formation; State-society Relations in Post-Soviet Systems: Trade Unions in Ukraine; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index Palgrave Macmillan hardcover