Refocusing studies of post-communist trade unions
本文指出我们对后共产主义工会如何从共产党控制工具转变为工人利益代表机制知之甚少，通过研究罗马尼亚和乌克兰金属行业的九家工厂工会来探索工人利益代表分析路径的优劣。
This article argues that we know little about whether and how post-communist trade unions mastered the massive task of turning from organizations of communist control over the workplace into representation mechanisms for workers. An initial way to deal with these issues is to re-conceptualize our explanandum from trade union strength to worker interest representation. I use a study of nine factory-level trade unions in the Romanian and Ukrainian metal sectors to explore the merits and the limitations of an approach based on the study of worker interest representation.