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Hot coal, cold steel : Russian and Ukrainian workers from the end of the Soviet Union to the post-communist transformations /

In a comparative study of coal miners and steelworkers at the end of the Soviet era, Stephen Crowley sheds light on where these industrial workers have been and where they are going. Coal miners in the final years of the Soviet Union organized and led strikes that supported the end of Communism, eve...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crowley, Stephen, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Workers, collective action, and political movements
  • The 1989 miners strike
  • Steelworkers and mutual dependence
  • Steelworkers, workers organizations, and collective action
  • Building a workers movement
  • From economics to politics
  • Labor and economic transformation
  • Politics and coal miners in Ukraine and Russia
  • Workers, politics, and the post-communist transformations.