Volynets Trade Unions and Worker Representation in Ukraine

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-95710-137-2
Verlag: Hampp Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten

The disintegration of socialism that occurred across Europe in the late 1980's prompted significant changes in the area of Industrial Relations. With all of the institutional changes in place, the role and functions of trade unions have been fundamentally challenged. This ongoing development of post-socialist worker representation and trade unions within new operating conditions forms the focus of this book. The book offers a process-oriented perspective of union development. The complexity of the dynamic processes of union formation is used in order to explain weak conflict-based forms of worker representation in Ukraine. A general overview of union development includes a discussion of the various currents, tensions and approaches to worker representation within reformed and independent trade unions. Using detailed examples of enterprise-based unions in Ukraine, it demonstrates the effects of the co-existence of and competition between reformed and newly emerging trade unions on the development of conflict-based worker representation in the post-socialist context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Volynets, Lyudmyla

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Lyudmyla Volynets: Trade Unions and Worker Representation in Ukraine;1
2;Preface;5
3;Acknowledgements;9
4;Table of Contents;11
5;Introduction;17
6;Chapter 1. Background, Research Question and Hypothesis;23
7;Chapter 2. Research Design and Methodology;55
8;Chapter 3. Conceptual Framework: Union Formative Processes in the FSU;79
9;Chapter 4. The State of Industrial Relations in Ukraine;109
10;Chapter 5. Structuring of Trade Unions;143
11;Chapter 6. Learning Processes of Ukrainian Trade Unions;171
12;Chapter 7. Union Consolidation;199
13;Conclusions: the Prospects for Conflict-Based Worker Representation in the FSU;261
14;References;279

Über Autor(innen)

Lyudmyla Volynets had worked as the international secretary for the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine. She later obtained her M.A. in Labour Policy and Globalisation at the Global Labour University in Kassel/ Berlin in 2006 and completed her dissertation in political science at the Freie Universität of Berlin in 2013.