The problems of reconstituting a union in a reorganised state enterprise: an exploration of aspects of Hungary's shop floor industrial relations

Mark Pittaway
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Mark Pittaway: Department of Economic and Social History, University of Liverpool.

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 1997, vol. 3, issue 2, 357-376

Abstract: In this micro-level study of Hungarian industrial relations, the author describes, using extensive archive materials and numerous personal interviews with workers and local residents, the changing fortunes of the enterprise trade union in a large former (non-identified) state-owned and now semi-privatised heavy industrial site in central Hungary. After a brief introduction to the history and some of the factors specific to the case enterprise, which was first set up in the 1940s, the article examines the relationship between the workers and the union in the period preceding 1988 before looking at how management, union and workforce came to terms with the process of political, social and economic transformation which occurred after that date, in order to show both the achievements and limits of the process of union reconstruction which occurred.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/102425899700300207

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