Product Description: Economic reform in post-Soviet Russia created not only a devastating decline in living standards, but also widespread insecurity and uncertainty. This book is the first to analyse the situation from a gendered perspective, shedding new light on the way in which Russians are coping with the transformation of the labour market...read more

Product Description: This book, based on detailed research at national, regional and workplace level, analyzes the development of trade unions and industrial relations in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet system. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Addressing the important questions raised by the rise and fall of the Soviet experiment in transforming gender relations, this study argues that the consideration of men and masculinity is vital to our understanding gender relations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia.

Product Description: Following the strike waves of 1989 and 1991, many commentators expected Russian workers to play a decisive role in determining the course of transition. Workers have stoically endured a catastrophic decline in living standards, a loss of security and wage delays of six months or more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models_whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity...read more