The article explains the violent radicalization of the initially peaceful Maidan uprising in
January 2014 as the result of failure to build efficient leverage against Viktor Yanukovych …

The western-driven wave of globalization that began with the liberalization of financial
markets from the 1970s onward, and strengthened even further with the collapse of the …

This article investigates a case of successful union organizing in one automotive assembly
plant in Romania. The authors argue that in order to explain why the union succeeds in …

This article supplements the literature on post-communist trade unions with an account of
how state measures can affect union strength in post-communist Europe. The authors focus …

The impact of shocks and crises on workers and workers' crisis coping strategies are issues
of global concern and have generated a rich literature on resilience and sustainable …

Austerity measures in the wake of the recent world financial crisis often translated into large
cuts in public employment and spending, and tax increases. Trade unions throughout …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain why, in spite having a relatively powerful
labour movement at the start of the economic transformation, Romania ended up with a …

Romania is one of the main countries of origin for intra-European migration. The national
authorities recently implemented the first major program—Diaspora Start-up—to support the …

The article provides empirical evidence on Romanians' concerns over the effectiveness of
their social work system in correctly evaluating social needs and preventing welfare frauds …

In post-communist transitions, given the steepness of union decline and the inheritance of
rigid communist-era Labor Codes, a convenient way to compare the relative efficacy of …