Russian workers : the anatomy of patience
"Following the strike waves of 1989 and 1991, many commentators expected Russian workers to play a decisive role in determining the course of transition. In the event, workers have stoically endured a catastrophic decline in living standards, a loss of security and wage delays of six months or more. Sarah Ashwin's book directly confronts this paradox, dissecting the apparent 'patience' of Russian workers through an original analysis of the forms of social integration fostered within the Soviet and post-Soviet enterprise, and an examination of the barriers which have prevented trade unions from effectively representing workers' interests during the transition."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1999
History
xii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
9780719056116, 071905611X
41018703
1. The anatomy of patience: Russian workers in transition from communism
2. Vishnovka: portrait of a mining settlement in transition
3. Taldym: privatisation and its discontents
4. 'We always lead the way': the Taldym trade union committee in transition
5. Shop-floor trade unionism: the prospects of 'reform from below'
6. 'Our mine': workers and the labour collective
7. The lampovaya: the stunted collectivism of the immediate work group
8. Surviving the transition: individual and collective strategies
9. Conclusion