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Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2005

Peter Rutland
Affiliation:
Wesleyan University

Extract

Organized Labor in Postcommunist States: From Solidarity to Infirmity. By Paul J. Kubicek. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. 256p. $29.95.

What happened to organized labor when capitalism came to postcommunist Europe? Paul Kubicek provides a convincing answer to this question, based on case studies of Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Ukraine. He confirms the core story of labor weakness laid out in Stephen Crowley and David Ost, eds., Workers After Workers' States (2001). Kubicek draws on an impressive range of primary and secondary sources and dozens of interviews with union officials, mostly in 2001–2.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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