Privatization and Labor

Edited by the late Marsha Pripstein Posusney, formerly Associate Professor of Political Science, Bryant College, US and Research Adjunct in International Relations, Brown University, US and Linda J. Cook, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, US

• Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Unions in Transition: Why Organized Labor Embraced Economic Reform in Poland (1989–1999) 3. Egyptian Labor Struggles in the Era of Privatization: The Moral Economy Thesis Revisited 4. The Political Element in Economic Reform: Labor Institutions and Privatization Patterns in South Asia 5. Enterprise Reform and Labor in North Africa 6. Public Sector Downsizing: An Introduction 7. Privatization and Employment: Some General Issues 8. Ironies and Obstacles to China’s Post-Socialist Housing Privatization 9. Provision of Social Benefits by Russian Enterprises: Managers’ Behavior and Motivations 10. The Political Economy of Pension Reform: Poland and Hungary 11. Labor and the Politics of Human Capital Accumulation Index

'. . . this book makes a significant contribution to the debate about controversial privatisation issues and industrial policy responses to them. . . Privatization and Labor is an engaging and informative analysis of some of the most important and controversial privatisation issues, even when it is not completely persuasive.'