Abstract
The article is aimed at revealing the origins of the core contradictions in social and labour relations in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. The transition to market economy of Russian society since the early 1990s has not brought a fully fledged concept of labour relations. The concept of labour relations found in Russia today is rather the product of the ignorance of the state authorities, which led to a situation of increased tension between labour and capital. The contradictions in social and labour-relations stem, on the one hand, from Soviet society, and on the other, have been generated by the transition to market per se. The author endeavours to give response to the question, why does a model of social partnership limit itself only to its formal aspects rather than seek an essential shift in the direction of the establishment workable framework of labour relations?
Highlights
The Russian academic tradition regards the entity of social relations relating generally to the field of labour as “social and labour relations.”
Inadequate and conflicting laws, the availability of legal voids; the prevalence of opportunism and the lack of foresight in investment politics; a low degree of rational economic behaviour, the fact that people focus on family and clan relations, a large amount of barter and non-cash payment, the huge size of the informal sector and the gradual blurring of boundaries between legal and illegal activities—all of these characteristics of family and crony capitalism condemn it to wasting resources and to economic stagnation. (59)
We can conclude that, having chosen tripartism as the basis of labour-relations regulation in post-Soviet Russia, the government has presided over its non-development
Summary
The Russian academic tradition regards the entity of social relations relating generally to the field of labour (unlike the term “industrial relations”) as “social and labour relations.” labour relations as such are defined as the relation of an employee towards production and the results of her or his labour. FROM THE SOVIET MODEL OF LABOUR RELATIONS TO SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP of a socio-economic system. It should be added that the social dimensions of labour relations in the Russian version indicate the key role played in them by the state’s authority. The latter explains why a tripartite system of social partnership was chosen in the transition period. In the Soviet model of labour relations, the chief actors were the state, the trade union and the director of an enterprise (organization, institution). In the command-administrative model of the Soviet economy, workers were de facto alienated from the results of their labour. GULNARA AITOVA has degenerated in post-Soviet Russia into reactionary and sometimes even into archaic forms of relations between employers and employees
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