Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
This volume brings together studies on the dynamics of trade unionism in three country groups: Russia/Ukraine, China/Vietnam and
Poland/Hungary/Slovakia. What binds them together is the fact that
these countries embarked on a transition from command to post-socialist market economies, even though they did this in different intensities and with disparate political governance structure. While one group
(Poland/Hungary/Slovakia) took »shelter« in the EU and framed their
political and economic reforms in following guidelines from the West,
another group (Russia/Ukraine) set off for a development course of its
own; a third group (China/Vietnam) went for a dichotomous strategy,
stepping with one foot into the world of market economies while leaving the other in the past of part-state