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 --...

Introduction : wealth, wellbeing, and social institutions -- Organized labor and democratic consolidation -- The state and economic development --Organized labor and economic reform -- Reorganizing industry, disorganizing workers -- Organized labor, democracy, and development.

Is "standard employment" still what it used to be? / Annette Bernhardt and Dave E. Marcotte -- Definition, composition, and economic consequences of the nonstandard workforce / Anne E. Polivka, Sharon R. Cohany, and Steven Hipple -- Limits to market-mediated employment : from deconstruction to...

According to the theory, a combination of the highly regulated external labour market and the internal rigidity would induce organisational inefficiency. Evidence suggests that theoretically unexpected results of that combination prevailed in Slovenia. Under the pressure of the competition on...