Putin's Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and St

Putin's Labor DilemmaRussian Politics Between Stability and Stagnation\nAuthor(s): Stephen Crowley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: ILR Press\nISBN-13: 9781501756283, 978-1501756283\nSynopsis\nIn Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require restructuring the country's industrial landscape. At the same time, doing so threatens to generate protest and instability from a key regime constituency. However, continuing to prop up Russia's Soviet-era workplaces, writes Crowley, could lead to declining wages and economic stagnation, threatening protest and instability.\n\n Crowley explores the dynamics of a Russian labor market that generally avoids mass unemployment, the potentially explosive ro.