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The weakness of social actors in CEE: exploiting or consolidating Trade Unions in post-communist Romania?

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Ionescu, Alexandra

Abstract

Trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe exhibit a difficult organizational development, a high degree of fragmentation and a lack of strength. Focusing on the Romanian trade union confederations, this paper aims to provide an alternative explanation of their influence during the democratization p... view more

Trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe exhibit a difficult organizational development, a high degree of fragmentation and a lack of strength. Focusing on the Romanian trade union confederations, this paper aims to provide an alternative explanation of their influence during the democratization process. The study emphasizes that, in the Romanian case, the articulation and the consolidation of the trade union movements were directly dependent on the relationship created with the political arena. In its turn, the reconfiguration of the trade unions’ politicization entailed a change in their internal structures and in their strategies. The general mechanisms of Romanian unions' transformation are scrutinized in the last section of this article by mobilizing the case of the civil servants interests representation after 1989.... view less

Keywords
politicization; organizational development; trade union policy; officialdom; corporatism; consolidation

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture

Document language
English

Publication Year
2009

Page/Pages
p. 471-486

Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 9 (2009) 3

ISSN
1582-4551

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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