Sociology, Center for Social and Labour Rights, Moscow, Russia
Octobre 2013 à Juin 2014
Petr Bizyukov was born and grew up in Western Siberia (Kemerovo). In 1983 he graduated from Kemerovo University, and received the qualification of labour economist. After his graduation from this university he remained there to work at the Economics Department, to study social and economic problems. At the same time he taught work sociology and gave lectures on human resource management. In 1989, he started studying the problems of labour protests, the independent labour movement and new trade unions. Since 1991, he has been one of the organizers of an interregional research group on the basis of which, in 1995, the Institute of Comparative Researches of the Labor Relations (ISITO) was created. In 1995 he became the director of the Kemerovo offi ce of ISITO. As the regional leader, and then as a director of office, he took part in Russian and international researches devoted to the transformation of labour relations, the labour and trade-union movement, employment and unemployment problems. In 2006 he moved to Moscow and began to work in the Center for Social and Labor Rights where he headed the research and analytical direction. The most significant researches were devoted to problems of labour discrimination, to labour relations in conditions of unstable forms of employment, to the development of the trade-union movement and to labour conflicts and protests.
Post-socialist transformations of the labour relations in Russia: whether it was successful in making a breakthrough to freedom.
The research project is based on results of numerous researches in which Petr Bizyukov has participated since the end of the eighties to the present time. During this period, labour relations in Russia changed dramatically. There was a refusal of regulation from the Soviet institutes; attempts to create new principles of interaction between workers and employers, and at the same time, spontaneously there were real practices of regulation within labour relations in a spirit of ‘wild capitalism’. The replacement of labour laws at the beginning of the 2000 did not solve the problem. In the last decade, labour relations in Russia began to change under the influence of a flow of migrants, and also under the influence of unstable forms of employment which were imported to the country. At the same time, there is a weakening of the trade unions which are unable to overcome the internal split, and supervision by the State of the observance of the remaining labour standards has been weakened. In the country, the amount of poverty is not decreasing and most of this population has work. Why in twenty years of market reforms is the standard of living of this rich country still low? Why are there no effective trade unions in the country and why are workers unable to protect their rights? Did the market economy allow Russian workers to become more free and independent? Answers to these questions are important not only for Russia, but also for other Post-Soviet countries, for those societies who are trying to be modernized.
Bizyukov, Petr, Bizyukova V., Burnishev K., et al. The place of the trade-union in the system of regulation of labor relations. Moscow : Institute for Comparative Labour Relations Research ISITO, 2004 .
Bizyukov, Petr. HR-Departments – management periphery. In Kabalina V. Management practices in Russian contemporary enterprises. Moscow : Institute for Comparative Labour Relations Research ISITO, 2005.
Bizyukov, Petr. Individual labor conflicts: can the workers protect their rights on their own. Moscow : Center for social and labor rights, 2011.
Bizyukov, Petr. How to protect labor rights in Russia: collective protests and their role in regulation of labor relations. Moscow : Center for social and labor rights, 2011.
BIZYUKOV, Petr, Gerasimova E.S., Saurin S.A. Personnel leasing: consequences for workers. Moscow : Center for social and labor rights, 2012.