While events unfold in the Ukraine with potential consequences for
neighbouring countries, you may wonder where labour has gone (or is going)
in post-socialist societies. And if you also want (or have???) an answer,
nothing is better than attending this workshop:
Research Workshop
Trade unions and the state in post-socialist countries
Moscow, April 14-16 2005.
Invitation to participate.
Researchers and trade union activists are invited to participate in the
above research workshop.
The research workshop is being organised within the framework of an
international collaborative research project ‘Trade unions in post-
socialist society: overcoming the state-socialist legacy?’ funded by INTAS
from 2004-7 under the EU’s Framework VI Programme. The purpose of the
three-year project as a whole is to identify the constraints and
opportunities facing trade unions in the post-socialist countries
resulting from their common state socialist past and to derive practical
conclusions for trade union practice from this comparative study of trade
union experience.
The first year of the programme, culminating in this research workshop,
has focused on trade unions and the state, with particular emphasis on the
extent to which trade unions continue to perform state functions and the
significance of social dialogue and social partnership for the role of
post-socialist trade unions.
The planned format of the workshop is to pre-circulate reports on
relations between trade unions and the state in the participating
countries, written to a common template, and on this basis to conduct
thematic discussion around hypotheses to be presented by participants in
the workshop.
Research has been conducted within the framework of the project in Russia,
Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and
reports will be presented on each of these countries. It is intended to
supplement these reports with reports from as many other post-socialist
countries as we can accommodate.
The languages of the workshop will be English and Russian, with
simultaneous translation and, as far as possible, pre-circulated reports
in both languages.
We are working within a very limited budget. Some financial support may be
available for participants from other post-socialist countries, who are
able to provide a report on their own countries.
Conference Fee: Paid before 1 March 2005 Paid after 1 March
2005
Participants from post-socialist and low-income countries: US$360
US$500
Participants from other EU and G7 countries: US$500 US$650
The conference fee covers the costs of conference participation, meals and
accommodation for the duration of the conference and a visa invitation.
The number of participants is strictly limited, so early application to
participate is advised.
Further details are available at www.warwick.ac.uk/go/russia/tuworkshop
Guglielmo Meardi
University of Warwick
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