Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93037 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Citation: 
[Journal:] Management Revue [ISSN:] 1861-9916 [Volume:] 23 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Rainer Hampp Verlag [Place:] Mering [Year:] 2012 [Pages:] 66-82
Publisher: 
Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering
Abstract: 
Since the beginning of the transformation in Poland, trade unions have experienced nearly two decades of declining membership numbers and influence. This article shows that not only the restructuring of the economy but also the trade union policies and organizational forms themselves contributed to the decline. The absence of strong industry-level organizations, the neglect of membership recruitment due to the engagement in party politics, and the abandonment of co-determination rights at the workplace level in the 1990s made the adaptation to new conditions more difficult. During the last years, however, several innovations started to change the industrial relations in Poland: organizing activities, experiments with organizational structures above the workplace level, and the introduction of works councils. With the background of the coming generational change in which older unionists are passing on the leadership to younger activists, these steps towards reform could be a starting point for greater changes.
Subjects: 
trade unions
industrial relations
organizing
works councils
Poland
JEL: 
J51
J53
J83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.