Labour Relations in Transition in Eastern Europe

Frontmatter - Acknowledgements - Contents - Introduction - I. General Frameworks for the Restructuring - Labour Relations in Transition in the East and the West - Social Spaces and Acting Society - Patterns of Work Identity in the Firm and Plant: An East-West Comparision - Payment by Results in Transition: Capitalist and Socialist Restructuring - Technical Progress and Decentralization of Socialist Economies - Capitalism, Socialism, and Business Organizations - II. Self-Management: From the Idea to Reality? - Incompatible: Bulgaria From Managed Self-Management to Managerial Management - Radical Economic Reform and Democratization Process: a new Challenge for the Sociology of Work - The Role of Self-Management in Polish Enterprises - III. New Forms of Management and Labour - Hungary's Changing Labour Relations System - A Small Factory Working on a Lease Basis in the USSR - Collective Forms of Work Organisation in Czechoslovak Economic Pratice - Intraorganizational Determinants of Worker's Self-Management Activity - IV. The Change of Trade Union Structures - Business Democracy: Work Collective Councils and Trade Unions - Current Reform Trends in Yugoslavia A Challenge for Trade Unions - On the Road to Autonomy: The Case of the Hungarian Unions - Participation and Technological Alternatives in the German Democratic Republic: The Dilemma of Scientific Prediction and Co-Management by Trade Unions in the Past and Present - V. Legal und Political Restructuring - Toward a Social Market in Communist Nations - Labour Legislation in a Socialist Country Bulgaria a Case Study - Industrial Democracy and Power Structuration in the Polish Economy - Transition to Free Market Economy and Romania in the Year 2000. A Manpower Prospective Approach - Effects of Workers' Profit Sharing Revisited: Some Methodological and Substantive Reflections - Perspectives of Self-Government and De-Alienation in Business in the USSR - VI. Instead of a Conclusion - Dismantling the State and Creating Civil Society - On the Authors - Name Index - Subject Index - Backmatter