Gewerkschaften sind zentrale politische Akteure in Demokratisierungsprozessen und in etablierten Demokratien. Doch während in den Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften seit vielen Jahren eine lebhafte Debatte über die Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen, NGOs und außerparlamentarische...

List of maps, figures, and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: wealth, wellbeing, and social institutions -- Organized labor and democratic consolidation -- The state and economic development -- Economic reform and labor's response -- Reorganizing industry, disorganizing workers --...

"What happens to a society--and a planet--when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding, and they have been laid bare by the social effects of COVID-19. The narrative of "essential workers" has provided thin cover for the fact that society's...

Whilst most studies on the transformation of industrial relations (IR) in Eastern Europe focus on the common trends, this paper examines variations in IR practices at company level. It uses a revised version of the exchange model to analyse the evidence from nineteen case studies in Romania. As...