The Transformation of Industrial Relations in Eastern Germany
基于1991-1992年对东德六家制造企业劳资代表的访谈，分析私有化与制度转移如何影响工会和工人委员会的力量，指出未来取决于行动者策略。
Citing case studies based on interviews they conducted in 1991 and 1992 with labor representatives and managers at six eastern German manufacturing firms, the authors argue that the future could hold either vigor and growth or stagnation and permanent second-class status for the economy and labor movement in eastern Germany, depending largely on actor strategy and choice.The rapid spread of privatization and open markets is tending to undermine unions' influence, on the one hand; but on the other hand, institutional transfer from former West Germany (especially of codetermination law and centralized, regionallevel collective bargaining) is giving unions and works councils increased possibilities for leverage.S INCE the collapse of "Realsozialismus" in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), the five new eastern states of unified Germany have become a land of liberated citizens and pioneers, and at the same time a land of despair and dashed hope.Dreams and disaster roam side by side, and nowhere is this more true than at the workplace.As millions of workers are displaced and thrown out of work, millions of others cling to old or