György Széll 
Labour Relations in Transition in Eastern Europe [PDF ebook] 

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