Planning, Politics, and Shop-Floor Power: Hidden Forms of Bargaining in Soviet-Imposed State-Socialist Societies

THE RISE OF AN INDEPENDENT, MASS TRADE-UNION MOVEMENT IN POLAND WOULD SEEM A THEORETICAL IMPOSSIBILITY IF IT HAD NOT ALREADY OCCURRED. THE MORE SERIOUSLY YOU TAKE AVAILABLE THEORIES OF EASTERN EUROPEAN POLITICS, OLD AND NEW, OF THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT, THE LESS LIKELY IT SEEMS THAT WORKERS IN THE STA...

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Published in:Politics & society 1982-01, Vol.11 (4), p.439-475
Main Authors: Sabel, Charles F., Stark, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
BARGAINING
POLITICAL MOVEMENT
POLITICAL THEORY
POWER, PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING
SOCIALISM
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
WORKERS, LABORERS, AND WORKING CONDITIONS
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Summary:THE RISE OF AN INDEPENDENT, MASS TRADE-UNION MOVEMENT IN POLAND WOULD SEEM A THEORETICAL IMPOSSIBILITY IF IT HAD NOT ALREADY OCCURRED. THE MORE SERIOUSLY YOU TAKE AVAILABLE THEORIES OF EASTERN EUROPEAN POLITICS, OLD AND NEW, OF THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT, THE LESS LIKELY IT SEEMS THAT WORKERS IN THE STATE-SOCIALIST SOCIETIES ARE CAPABLE OF DEFENDING THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING AND WORK CONDITIONS AS INDIVIDUALS, LET ALONE CAPABLE OF COLLECTIVELY CHALLENGING STATE POWER AND IMPROVING THEIR ECONOMIC SITUATION. THE MOST NAIVE HOPE IN THE DETERMINED OPPOSITION OF SUBJECT PEOPLES WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER GUIDE TO DEVELOPMENTS IN POLAND THAN ANY SOPHISTICATED, GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE POSSIBILITIES OF POPULAR POLITICAL ACTION IN EASTERN EUROPE WRITTEN BEFORE 1980.
ISSN:0032-3292
1552-7514
DOI:10.1177/003232928201100403