scholarly journals Trade Unions in the Comfort Zone: Liberal Authority in Yeltsin’s Russia.

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma Jo Baker
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
New Era ◽  
Economic Relations

While much has been written on the failure of the Yeltsin presidency and the transformation of Russian society since 1991, little work has been done that illustrates the participation of established liberal democracies in supporting Yeltsin’s authoritarian, politically unresponsive ‘superpresidentialism,’ or linking this support to the authoritarian nature of the modern liberal democratic project itself. By examining Russian trade union culture and history, as well as international trade union representative involvement, this paper argues that the persistent neglect of unions in the 1990s to challenge social relations of production can be understood as paradigmatic of an authoritarian dynamic focused on the political elite rather than on their membership. With international support, the regime’s concern was with the dismantling of Soviet economic relations and social institutions. Working from the culture and history of Russian trade unions, the unions’ efforts to retain a place in the new era through a strategy of ‘social partnership,’ combined with the collapse of the social welfare system, reinforced a top-down inertia characteristic of the unions. The result, predictably, was an era marked by a politics of irresponsibility, a political ethic is not indicative of an inherent Russian authoritarianism, but that of the authoritarian nature of the liberal modernity itself.

scholarly journals Influence of Social Innovations on Modernization of Economic Relations

2019 ◽  
pp. 6-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Halushka
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Partial Replacement ◽  
Gradual Transition ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Levels Of Functioning ◽  
Social Management

The article generalizes approaches to understanding the essence of social innovations and substantiates their significance as a process that ensures a qualitative transformation of the system of socio-economic relations, their modernization and appropriate institutional formulation. Specifics of social innovations, approaches to their classification, their factors are determined. The following changes in the system of economic relations under the influence of social innovations are revealed: socialization of economic relations as a global trend of their development; formation of join to ownership and sharing models; social investment; minimize transaction costs; rating of partner sand clients, control over their behavior; partial replacement of market mechanisms based on the construction of modern communications vertically and horizontally, gradual transition to digital multilevel governance, establishment of social management, etc. It is noted that social innovations lead to the emergence of new socio-economic institutions, changes in “rules of the game” and typical behavior patterns. The influence of social innovations on the change of socio-economic relations at the mega-, macro-, meta- and micro-levels of functioning of the economy is shown. Changes in socio-economic relations under the influence of global social innovations, Internet technologies, social reforms, social networks, digital governance and other factors are described. On the example of formation and accumulation of social capital, the directions of the influence of social innovations on the change of the whole system of economic relations and modernization of social and economic order are determined. Their influence on the formation of modern social institutions, which sanction the norms and structure of social relations, functions of state structures, the range of rights and responsibilities of individuals, forms of coordination of social processes.

The Trade Unions: From Partnership to Crisis

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kieran Allen
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
New Era ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
Welfare Model

The Irish model of social partnership was once hailed as a success story for other countries to emulate. According to its supporters, the unions avoided marginalisation and devised a strategy to balance competitiveness and equity. Through partnership, Ireland was able to combine the benefits of an Anglo-Saxon notion of free markets with a ‘solidaristic’ ethos and so forge a ‘developmental welfare model’ (NESC 2005). Social partnership replaced class conflict with a new era of understanding between employers and unions. Paul Sweeney of the ICTU claimed that, ‘for unions and employers the biggest accomplishment has been getting into the heads of each other, to understand unambiguously what the deep concerns of the other side are’ (Sweeney 2008: 125). This paper examines the journey of the Irish trade union movement from main players in social partnership through to the current crisis.

scholarly journals Uma análise weberiana da gestação das estruturas de dominação em sindicatos

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 01
Author(s):  
Antônio Santos-Silva ◽  
Antonio Carvalho Neto
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Weberian Theory

This paper presents the report of a survey that aimed to investigate the role of union leaders in gestation structures of domination in Brazilian unions adopting an interpretative Weberian analysis. Weberian concepts, such as domination, social relation and legitimacy were articulated to explain, in a qualitative approach, the internal social relations within trade unions. The exploratory analysis of 26 interviews conceded by trade union leaders allowed the identification of five groups of orders that constitute maxims and rules of action among the union leaders. This paper focuses on the documental analysis of 115 documents looking for evidence of the domination structures genesis. The documents revealed that these structures go back to the trade union training process, especially from the decade 1970s. The data analysis was structured in five groups of orders: ethics; political repression; ideology; mistrust between parts; and validity of laws. The study concluded by the pertinence of the adoption of the interpretative Weberian approach to explain the action of administrative staff (as in Weber, the influential individuals on the decision making process within the organization) related to the making and preservation of the structures of domination, confirming the Weberian theory.

scholarly journals Medicine and society: micro level of social interaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-65
Author(s):  
T. V. Semina
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social System ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Indivisible Object

This article examines the features of the interaction of social institutions of medicine and health care in modern Russian society at the micro level — within the social system “doctor — patient”. Sufficient space is given to a comparative analysis of traditional (paternalistic and collegial) and modern (informational and contractual) models of social relations between doctors and patients. Ne author highlights the factors under which the widespread use of information and contractual models in Russian realities contribute to the transformation of traditionally solidary social relations in the system under consideration into conflict ones. The article, based on the original author’s sociological research, examines the features of the conflict confrontation between doctors and patients, identifies their specific differences from traditional social conflicts. On the one hand, the conflicts that unfold in the social system “doctor — patient” are precisely social conflicts, since the interaction in this system embraces both all representatives of the medical community and practically all members of society, each of which, one way or another, becomes patient. On the other hand, if the prerequisite and then the basis of the usual conflict interaction is the presence of a single indivisible object, then in the case of a social conflict in the “doctor — patient” system, health can hardly be considered “a single and indivisible object”. Health for the subjects of this conflict is indeed an important spiritual value, but much more often the conflict arises over the rights and obligations, as well as the distribution of power among the interacting parties. Enough attention is paid to the analysis of the macro-, meso- and micro- causes of this conflict, as well as to the problem of the influence of the media on the genesis of this type of conflict relationship; tendencies that are especially characteristic in the relationship between the patient audience and the media in recent times are highlighted and revealed.

scholarly journals Social partnership as a mechanism of agreement of group interests

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. G. Dehanova
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Strong State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Government Body ◽  
Representation Of Interests

The article deals with the features of representation of interests in the system of social partnership of modern Russia. Two main approaches to the category of “social partnership” are analyzed: narrow, in which the social partnership is understood as the relationship between employers, employees and trade unions in the labor sphere and broad, considering social partnership as intersectoral social interaction between the three sectors of society — government body, commercial enterprises and nonprofit organizations in order to solve the problems of the social sphere. The conditions influencing the process of institutionalization of various models of social partnership are analyzed. The author pays special attention to the process of formation of the Institute of social partnership in modern Russia. The negative factors hindering the formation of an effective, rather than formal, system of social partnership are identified: the underdevelopment of civil society institutions, the weakness of trade unions, the lack of effective representation of employers, too strong state dominance, inequality of the parties. The use of foreign experience of non-confrontational ways of regulating social relations should be adapted to Russian realities.

International Review: Industrial Relations in Britain under New Labour, 1997-2010: A Post Mortem

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Brown
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
New Labour ◽  
International Review ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Economic Context

A revival of trade unions was widely expected when Blair’s New Labour government took over from the Conservatives in Britain in 1997. This did not occur and collective bargaining continued to retreat. This article discusses the implications of the changing economic context for the government’s legal innovations, notably, statutory trade union recognition and a minimum wage, and describes the consequences for industrial relations. It concludes that New Labour’s legacy may lie in its nurturing of the institutions of social partnership and the use of conciliation.

THE CURRENT STATE AND EVOLUTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE UNION ORGANIZATIONS AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 94-100
Author(s):  
I. I. DAVLETOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Current State ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Rights And Interests ◽  
Level Of Motivation

In modern economic conditions, trade union organizations are necessary to protect the rights and interests of workers, improve the quality of life, and ensure social guarantees. The trade union unites: employees of the enterprise, students of secondary and higher vocational education institutions, temporarily unemployed able-bodied citizens, pensioners. Trade union organizations carry out a great deal of work to protect the social and labor rights and interests of workers, to increase the level of motivation of trade union membership. All this makes it possible to attract youth to the ranks of the trade union organization. In modern society, an important function of trade unions is to develop social partnership at the regional level, conduct inspections and identify violations of labor laws in relation to employees.

scholarly journals Uzbekistan In The New Era Of Trade Union Development (2016-2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 294-297
Author(s):  
Abdulhakim Kholliyevich Buronov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
New Era

This article provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the activities of trade unions in Uzbekistan, in particular, the systemic measures taken by the federation in the field of social protection.

scholarly journals People's Trust in Authorities as a Phenomenon of Parasocial Relations in Modern Russian Society

2022 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-462
Author(s):  
Valentin Nemirovskiy ◽  
Aleksey Novikov
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Russian Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Parasocial Relationship ◽  
Modern Russian ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

The article features the concept of trust as a phenomenon of parasocial relations. Parasocial relationship is one-sided because its object is sometimes unaware of its subject. The phenomenon of people's trust in social institutions still remains largely understudied. The research was based on the sociocognitive approach developed by R. Falcone and C. Castelfranchi and the theory of social representations by S. Moscovici and D. Jodelet. In Russia, population's trust in authorities has always been low, and the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting it even more. The study revealed two forms of institutional trust, one based on social relations and the other based on parasocial relations. The institutional trust in modern Russia combines social and parasocial forms. They are closely interconnected, and the first can transform into the second. The deficit of social relations between Russian population and authorities in the conditions of declining institutional trust may lead to their replacement by less stable parasocial relations.

scholarly journals Modern Islam, Politics, and the Making of Religious Commodification Among Female Members of Majelis Taklim Circle in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

KALAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Mulyadi Mulyadi ◽  
Tontowi Jauhari ◽  
Mansur Hidayat ◽  
Arif Sugiono
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
The Common

Despite the common belief in society about the declining fate of religion in time of modernity, everyday behaviors of religious societies have shown that religion has been increasingly commodified for political purposes. This article aims to study the ways in which modernity has enabled the dynamic use of religious commodification in political sectors.  Its main question is how political leaders have used religious doctrines, values, and symbols for gaining their electoral supports. Data of this research is collected through surveys among female Muslim members of Islamic learning circles (majelis taklim) in Bandar Lampung, the biggest city in the province of Lampung, where religious learning circles have increasingly flourished in the last few years. This research finds out ample evidence showing the significant influences of modernization and commodification of religion in determining political behaviors of the female members of Islamic learning circles. Modernization in the context of this research is defined as knowledge, urbanization, increased income, technological progress, social norms, social interaction, social institutions, and  commodification of religion is identified as the acts of making religious teachings and activities as a commodity, empirically manifested in the form of transforming social relations into economic relations (relation oriented for economic interests, materialization of a thing spiritual).

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