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Article: David Mandel, Labour After Communism.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2006 Canadian Committee on Labour History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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David Mandel, Labour After Communism (Montreal: Black Rose Books 2004)
LABOUR AFTER COMMUNISM distills more than a decade of engagement by its author in the struggles of autoworkers and their unions in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. David Mandel, who teaches political science at the University of Quebec, previously has written on the workers of Petrograd during the 1917 revolution and elsewhere in the Soviet Union during Perestroika. He also is co-founder of the School for Worker Democracy which, according to the blurb on the back of this book, "conducts rank-and-file labour education in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus." In the often depressing, occasionally surprising, but ...
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