Labour protest and industrial peace
Russian steelworkers' encounters with economic reforms and unravelling social protections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison D Evans (0000-0002-6443-3062, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N Virginia St., Reno, NV 89557, United States.) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 360-381 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085147.2018.1492801 |
| OpenAlex | W2894081081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 21 |
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought a series of economic reforms: privatization, increased foreign direct investment and weakened benefits. Correspondingly, some scholars expected trade unions to serve as a major contribution to the development of a democratic civil society that would serve as a Polanyian double movement to these disruptive reforms. However, Russia’s steelworkers have stood out as particularly weak and unwilling to strike due to their dependence on their employer for almost all aspects of their livelihoods. But is this lack of large, legally sanctioned and disruptive strikes truly evidence of worker quiescence and weak trade unions? Using an analysis of local newspaper accounts and archival documents to process-trace the interactions of workers, trade unions and management, this paper offers a counter-argument to the generalizations of past studies. Specifically, protests tend to be more frequent and extreme when there is union competition within a company and when foreign owners violate labour laws. Unions tend to engage in non-protest bargaining strategies when companies face bankruptcy or closure under domestic ownership. Because Russia was an early case of the rapid liberalization reforms that have been broadly recommended to developing and post-communist countries, a closer reading of on-the-ground conditions and protest aids in a broader understanding of the variation in backlash to global capitalism
Appropriation · Argument (complex analysis · Capitalism · Collective bargaining · Communism · Competition (biology · Democracy · Economics · International trade · Liberalization · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Trade union · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Law
The Politics of Labor in a Global Age
Rebellious Civil Society
The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes
Labor Unions in Post-Communist Countries
Civil Society, Trade Unions and Post-Soviet Democratisation
Explaining Labor Weakness in Post-Communist Europe
Protest Patterns in Provincial Russia
The Determinants of Regional Differences in Strike Rate in the U.S., 1971–77
What Went Wrong in Russia? The Ravages of “Market Bolshevism
Leading Labor
Polanyi, political-economic opportunity structure and protest
Politics, justice and the new Russian strike
Globalization, Labor and the 'Polanyi Problem
A Critique of the Kerr-Siegel Hypothesis of Strikes and the Isolated Mass
Toward a Class Compromise in South Africa's 'Double Transition
The Use of Newspaper Data in the Study of Collective Action
Validity and Systematicity of Newspaper Data in Event Analysis
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |