Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition

SIMON CLARKE is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He has been researching trade unions and the labour movement in Russia, in collaboration with Russian and international trade union organisations, since 1991. He is scientific director of the Institute of Comparative Labour Relations Research (ISITO) in Moscow. - SARAH ASHWIN is a Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics. She has been doing research on the Russian trade union movement since 1991. Her previously published work includes Russian Workers: The Anatomy of Patience (1999).

'Ideal Reading for students of comparative industrial relations and for all those interested in the prospects for the international labour movement in the new century.' - Richard Hyman, Professor of Industrial relations, London School of Economics 'This important study...brings together a vast amount of empirical data and keen analytical insight. A major contribution to our understanding of Russian labour, society and polity after Communism.' - David Mandel, Professor of Political Science, Universitie du Quebec a Montreal

• Introduction Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in the Soviet System Trade Unions and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia The Structure of Russian Trade Unions The Legal Framework of Industrial Relations