Communist legacies, postcommunist transformations, and the fate of organized labor in Russia and China

Studies in Comparative International Development

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 62-87

  Chen, Calvin ^a   Sil, Rudra ^b  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MOBILITY; LABOR RELATIONS; LIBERALIZATION; POST-COMMUNISM; TRADE UNION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33750214532     PISSN: 00393606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02686311     Document Type: Article

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