Organized labor in postcommunist states - will the western sun set on it, too?

Abstract

Organized labor in postcommunist states is politically weak, marginalized by governments, and unable to mobilize its own members. Although some studies have assumed that with economic restructuring and recovery labor will again find a prominent role, marketization and globalization will undermie labor's position further. The same processes that undermined labor in western states are becoming manifest in postcommunist countries, and it is very doubtful if postcommunist organized labor will be able to survive as a movement.