@article{2012:krzywdzinski:trade_unio,
title = {Trade Unions in Poland: Between Stagnation and Innovation},
year = {2012},
note = {Since the beginning of the transformation in Poland, trade unions have
experienced nearly two decades of declining membership numbers and
influence. This article shows that not only the restructuring of the
economy but also the trade union policies and organizational forms
themselves contributed to the decline. The absence of strong
industry-level organizations, the neglect of membership recruitment
due to the engagement in party politics, and the abandonment of
co-determination rights at the workplace level in the 1990s made the
adaptation to new conditions more difficult. During the last years,
however, several innovations started to change the industrial
relations in Poland: organizing activities, experiments with
organizational structures above the workplace level, and the
introduction of works councils. With the background of the coming
generational change in which older unionists are passing on the
leadership to younger activists, these steps towards reform could be a
starting point for greater changes.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {65--81},
author = {Krzywdzinski, Martin},
volume = {23},
number = {1}
}