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Russia's official trade unions: renewal or redundancy?
Author(s) -
Ashwin Sarah
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1995.tb00737.x
Subject(s) - trade union , redundancy (engineering) , political science , international trade , political economy , business , economics , engineering , reliability engineering
Russia's official trade unions claim to have reformed themselves into independent organisations representing workers' interests. This article takes one branch union, the official miners' union, and, on the basis of research in the South Kuzbass mines, considers how far enterprise level unions have changed, and the potential for reform.