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Worker Insecurities in the Ukrainian Industry: The 2000 ULFS
Guy Standing and László Zsoldos, April 2001 This is the first report of results from the seventh round of the Ukrainian Enterprise Labour Flexibility Survey, carried out in 2000. Over its annual rounds, the ULFS is charting the main developments in the industrial labour market of this major European country, which when it emerged as an independent country following the break up of the Soviet Union contained nearly 52 million people. Since then, largely because of the huge economic and social decline, the population has shrunk to below 50 million, in less than ten years. This astonishing demographic fact is the single most important indicator of the seriousness of the economic decline in that period. The following paper tells a worrying story, about factories struggling to survive and produce, about workers in their many thousands faced by chronic insecurity, affected by wage cuts, loss of benefits, and so-called "administrative leave", while threatened by the fact that those factories have already lost many thousands of jobs. Previous rounds of the survey have documented many of the major changes, and this round demonstrates that new trends have begun that indicate that finally labour market restructuring is taking place. All views and conclusions are those of the authors only and not necessarily the ILO's. Thanks are due to the Ukrainian Ministry of Statistics, which was responsible for the fieldwork, Nadezhda Grigorovich and Natalya Vlasenko, colleagues in UNDP, Kiev, which helped finance the survey, and Igor Chernyshev, of the ILO's Bureau of Labour Statistics and the Socio-Economic Security Programme Click here for full document in PDF |
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Created by LD. Approved by GS. Last update 1 August 2001