Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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LYUDMYLA REFERENCES LITERATUR VOLYNETS<br />
ABSTRACT<br />
10<br />
IINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND POST-SOCIALIST<br />
TRANSFORMATION:<br />
THE CASE OF UKRAINE<br />
Organized interest representation<br />
is central for transformation processes<br />
(incl. economic, political<br />
and social systems) to be completed. Unless<br />
workers’ interest is articulated in an organized<br />
manner, the prospects for democracy and a<br />
market economy in Ukraine, like elsewhere,<br />
are threatened. The complex structuring of<br />
industrial relations (IR) under the conditions<br />
of emerging capitalism in Ukraine embraces<br />
changes at all possible levels: arenas, legal and<br />
institutional settings, actors and their agency.<br />
Together with the enterprise-related restructuring,<br />
it leads to the segmentation of the IR<br />
systems. From the actor-centred perspective,<br />
this article demonstrates how unions-related<br />
changes (conceptualized as formative processes)<br />
have shaped the differences across<br />
enterprises and segments of IR in Ukraine.<br />
Lyudmyla Volynets<br />
INTRODUCTION: SEGMENTED INDUSTRIAL RE-<br />
LATIONS SYSTEMS<br />
The structuring of business systems in the<br />
countries of Central and Eastern Europe<br />
(CEE) led to the emergence of segmented<br />
capitalisms (Martin (2008)) 1 . Industrial Relations<br />
(hereafter IR) constitute one element<br />
of such business systems and are understood<br />
here in terms of the shifting frontier<br />
of control over working conditions<br />
between workers and their unions Seite page 217<br />
and employers. Accordingly, the<br />
low integrity and incoherency of<br />
the emergent IR systems within the present<br />
segmented business systems (Martin und<br />
Christescu-Martin 2006) resulted in the rise