Everyday post-socialism : working-class communities in the Russian margins /: working-class communities in the Russian margins. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeremy Morris.
• Authors: Morris, Jeremy
• Contents: Cast of Characters ; Galina's Circle; Sasha's Circle; Others; Preface: The Long Twilight of the Factory Fiefdoms; Enter the Field, Enter the Informants; Ethnographic Approaches to Place, Time and the Russian Small Industrial Town; Chapter Outlines; References; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Prices; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Part I: Spaces and Places; 1: Introduction: The 'Worthless' Dowry of Soviet Industrial Modernity; Entering the Ex-monotown; Researching Postsocialism: Accounting for Everyday Habitability; Enduring Ongoing Dislocation and 'Betweenness' The History of an Experiment in Soviet Urban Planning: Izluchino as Town-Forming Enterprise Living, Breathing, Eating Plastic; The Continued Double-Burden for Women; Going Underground: To the Demiworld of Informal Enterprise and Work; The Long Echo of Paternalism and the Social Wage; The Globalizing of the Rural-Urban: Placeness and Habitability Within and Beyond the Town; Paternalistic Guardians of Labour, Symbolic Kinship and Affective Work in a Hostile World; References; 2: Blue-Collar Personhood After the Factory Workers Coming of Age in the Late 1990s When 'Nothing Has Changed, Yet Everything Has Changed' Workers After the 'Workers' State': Labour Turnover and 'Individualizing' Production Regimes; The Employers' View: Lumpen Workers in a 'Niche' Between Neoliberalism and Paternalism; Autonomy, Personalization and Independence in the Russian Factory; 'Wit and Skill' After the Factory; References; 3: Informal Economy: Going Underground but Coming Out of the Shadows; 'Garage Work': Particularistic Spaces of Working-Class Masculinity and Sociality; Entering the Informal Economy Through the Garage Autonomy in Informality? The Underground Production Workshop The Needs and Values of 'Gypsy' Taxi Drivers: Carving Out an Informal Niche; Skilled Informal Tradesmen: Andrei's Story: My Own Keeper but Not an 'Entrepreneur' ; Narratives of Self-resourcing: Emblematic Working-Class Persons Come 'Out of the Shadows'; References; 4: A Woman's Kingdom? Affect, Care and Regendering Labour; Julia and Polina: Social Mobility Versus the Claims of Caring Femininity; 'Crying into the Waistcoat': The Double-Bind of Ultra-Flexible Femininity; Coda: The Women at the Bottom, Holding Up the Top
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.094705; Social sciences; Working class -- Russia -- 21st century; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations; Working class; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family; Anthropology; Sociology: work & labour; Sociology: family & relationships; Politics & government; Anthropology; Industrial sociology; Social issues & processes; Russia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781349950898; 1349950890
• Related ISBNs: 9781349950881; 1349950882
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Sept. 16, 2016).
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