Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika by Donald Filtzer - 9780521452922

Soviet Workers and the Collapse of PerestroikaThe Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 19851991\nAuthor(s): Donald Filtzer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521452922, 978-0521452922\nSynopsis\nSoviet Workers and and the Collapse of Perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Filtzer argues that initially perestroika was designed to modernize the Soviet economy while keeping the existing political and property relations of society intact, which required a thoroughgoing restructuring of the labour process within Soviet industry. When ultimately this policy failed, the regime in mid-1990 opted to move to a full-scale restoration of capitalism, a task which could not be fulfilled so long as the traditional work practices and work relations within industry r.