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LYUDMYLA REFERENCES LITERATUR VOLYNETS
ABSTRACT
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IINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND POST-SOCIALIST
TRANSFORMATION:
THE CASE OF UKRAINE
Organized interest representation
is central for transformation processes
(incl. economic, political
and social systems) to be completed. Unless
workers’ interest is articulated in an organized
manner, the prospects for democracy and a
market economy in Ukraine, like elsewhere,
are threatened. The complex structuring of
industrial relations (IR) under the conditions
of emerging capitalism in Ukraine embraces
changes at all possible levels: arenas, legal and
institutional settings, actors and their agency.
Together with the enterprise-related restructuring,
it leads to the segmentation of the IR
systems. From the actor-centred perspective,
this article demonstrates how unions-related
changes (conceptualized as formative processes)
have shaped the differences across
enterprises and segments of IR in Ukraine.
Lyudmyla Volynets
INTRODUCTION: SEGMENTED INDUSTRIAL RE-
LATIONS SYSTEMS
The structuring of business systems in the
countries of Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE) led to the emergence of segmented
capitalisms (Martin (2008)) 1 . Industrial Relations
(hereafter IR) constitute one element
of such business systems and are understood
here in terms of the shifting frontier
of control over working conditions
between workers and their unions Seite page 217
and employers. Accordingly, the
low integrity and incoherency of
the emergent IR systems within the present
segmented business systems (Martin und
Christescu-Martin 2006) resulted in the rise