The workers' movement in Russia
By: Simon Clarke, Peter Fairbrother, Vadim Borisov.
Contributors: Fairbrother, Peter.; Borisov, Vadim, 1961-
Series: Studies of communism in transition
Publisher: E. Elgar
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Aldershot, UK; Brookfield, Vt., US
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Labor movement -- Russia (Federation); Labor unions -- Russia (Federation); Strikes and lockouts -- Russia (Federation); Working class -- Russia (Federation) -- Political activity.; Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Description: This major new book surveys the development of the new workers' movement in Russia under perestroika to understand how it connected with the workers at shop floor level and the national and local political authorities to whom it addressed its demands, and whose development it sought to influence.

Drawing on a unique programme of collaborative research on Russian industrial relations from 1987 to 1995, the authors use a series of case studies to explain the gulf between the thousands of tiny independent groups, often based in a single enterprise or even a single shop, and regional and national organizations without a grassroots base.

Extensive interviews with participants, tape and video recordings, as well as substantial documentary material are used in case studies of the 1989 miners' strike in Kuzbass, the Kuzbass regional council of workers' committees, the independent miners' union in Kuzbass, Sotsprof in Moscow and the Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Unions. An extensive introduction puts these studies into context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.