Pringle / Clarke The Challenge of Transition

Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam
2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-29466-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Non-Governmental Public Action

This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how successfully the state-socialist trade unions have adapted to their new role of representing the rights and interests of workers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pringle, Tim

Pringle, T.

Clarke, Simon

Clarke, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction State-Socialist Trade Unions in the Transition to a 'Socialist Market Economy' The Challenge of Worker Activism Traditional Trade Unions Adapting to New Conditions The Limits and Possibilities of Trade Unions in Transition Labour Activism and the Reform of Trade Unions References Index

Über Autor(innen)

TIM PRINGLE has been researching labour relations in Asia since 1996 with particular attention to China. He has lived in China and Hong Kong for twelve years during which time he collaborated with colleagues and comrades from the academic, activist and trade union communities.

 

SIMON CLARKE is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Since 1990 he has been researching labour and trade unions in the former state socialist countries, in collaboration with colleagues in those countries and with national and international trade union and labour organizations.