Book Reviews : JOHN THIRKELL, RICHARD SCASE AND SARAH VICKERSTAFF (EDS) Labour Relations and Political Change in Eastern Europe UCL Press, 1995, pp. 197, ISBN 1 85728 348 1 ILO CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN TEAM The Ukrainian Challenge: Reforming Labour Market and Social Policy Prague, Central European University Press, 1995, pp. 318, ISBN 1 85866 045 9

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-340
Author(s):  
Cohn Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Central European ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
European University

Book Reviews

2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-255
Author(s):  
Merdan Halilov ◽  
Zdenek Kudrna ◽  
Judit Kapás
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Central European ◽  
European University

[Book reviews] Winiecki, J.: Transition Economies and Foreign Trade. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 150 pp.; Olson, M.: Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorship. New York: Basic Books, 2000, 233 pp.; Krizsán, A. - Zentai, V. (eds): Reshaping Globalization - Multilateral Dialogues and New Initiatives. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003, 327 pp.

scholarly journals The social crisis of 'central'- eastern Europe since 1989

1997 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 343-353
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Fatić
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Central European ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Eastern

This paper deals with specific aspects of the crisis of social policy on the "central"-eastem European region, after the onset of political changes that commenced in 1989 with the so-called ..anti-communist revolutions", especially in "central" European countries. The period that began then has been characterised by fast political "transition" and restructuralisation of the economy and political institutions. It has brought with it the excitements of the "capitalisation" of the economy and society, greater individual liberties and rights. However, it has also inflicted on the region a social crisis of apocalyptic dimensions, which is truly unprecedent in this century's history of eastern Europe. The paper explores some particular elements of this social crisis, both statistically and qualitatively. These aspects of the crisis are interpreted, and in its concluding section the paper purports to suggest that any institutional and political change tends to have its more or less devastating social price, which in the case of most countries of "central"-eastern Europe could be have been lower if the reform had progressed at a more moderate and better planned pace.

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