The Challenge of Transforming Russian Unions: <i>The Mining and Metallurgy Trade Union</i>

Baglione, Lisa A.; Clark, Carol L.

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“…However, despite the high profitability and significant production volumes, the level of wages of workers of still functioning enterprises of the industry remains quite low compared to similar enterprises of the leading economies of the world [3][4]. This leads to deterioration in workers' situation.…”

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Who Should Miners’ Trade Unions Negotiate with?

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The article considers the issue of workers’ insecurity in Russian private mining enterprises. The authors reflect on the problem of nominal property and ultimate beneficiaries. A case of JSC Razrez Inskoy in Belovo (Kemerovo Oblast) is described. The authors focus on the fact that in spite of a significant number of trade unions miners have to directly address the state when problems occur. The mining and metallurgical complex of the Russian Federation occupies one of the leading places in the country's economy in terms of industry and foreign currency revenues. The official statistical fact that the mining and metallurgical complex determines the rating of the most profitable companies in Siberia is discussed in the paper. The authors emphasize that eenterprises of the mining and metallurgical complex are city-forming. The authors consider that solution of the key economic problem of nominal or ultimate beneficiaries’ is critically important for trade unions to be able to solve a wide range of modern problems in the frameworks of sustainable development.

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“…However, since the fall of communism, unions had lost primary control over the social wage and the chief union role was no longer to maintain production according to the plan, but rather to maintain enterprise profitability. 65 Such societal cohesion matters to the extent that the stock of 'social capital' can enhance macroeconomic policy effectiveness, an argument which comes into starker relief from a comparative vantage point. Across a range of country settings, unions and management have been able to engage in the wage and price restraint necessary to reconciling monetary stability with macroeconomic activism.…”

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Systemic Pressures and the Intersubjective Bases of State Autonomy in Russia: A Constructivist-Institutionalist Theory of Economic Crisis and Change

Baglione¹,

Widmaier²

2006

International Relations

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Over the economic crises of the 1990s, global economic understandings shifted from the early classical orthodoxy of the 'Washington Consensus' to a later Keynesian support for demand stimulus and capital controls. However, Russian policy -particularly after the 1998 ruble crisis -partly deviated from these broader trends, combining Keynesian capital controls with classical budgetary restraint. In offering a 'constructivistinstitutionalist' explanation for this policy mix, we assume that agents can always interpret or construct events as varying types of crises, reshaping state-society relations in the process. We then argue that classical interpretations of the early 1990s' crises legitimated orthodox policies and -more importantly -alienated the Russian state from society. Given this backdrop, while later interpretations of the 1998 ruble crisis legitimated capital controls, the prior alienation of state from society precluded any domestic Keynesian coalition. Global pressures must, from this vantage point, be situated in specific social and institutional contexts.

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Making a Difference? NGOs and Civil Society Development in Russia

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2009

Europe-Asia Studies

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The role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the development of Russia's civil society has been the focus of academic study since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In light of this literature, this article aims to assess the impact of the movement that has most often been seen as very promising for Russia's future civil society development?the environmental movement?by utilising research undertaken in Samara Oblast? of the Russian Federation. While the results do reveal some positive contributions to civil society development in Russia, they also exhibit many similarities with other studies in the extant literature, illustrating the relative weakness of Russia's social movements in the area of civil society development.Peer reviewe

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The Challenge of Transforming Russian Unions: The Mining and Metallurgy Trade Union

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Who Should Miners’ Trade Unions Negotiate with?

Who Should Miners’ Trade Unions Negotiate with?

Systemic Pressures and the Intersubjective Bases of State Autonomy in Russia: A Constructivist-Institutionalist Theory of Economic Crisis and Change

Making a Difference? NGOs and Civil Society Development in Russia

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