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