Work, employment, and transition [[electronic resource] ] : restructuring livelihoods in post-communism / / edited by Al Rainnie, Adrian Smith, and Adam Swain

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450127903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002
• ISBN: 1-280-14118-2; 0-203-99435-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies of societies in transition
• Altri autori (Persone): RainnieAl; SmithAdrian <1966->; SwainAdam
• Disciplina: 331.12/0947
• Soggetti: Labor market - Europe, Eastern; Labor market - Former Soviet republics; Post-communism - Europe, Eastern; Post-communism - Former Soviet republics; Electronic books.; Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989- Congresses; Former Soviet republics Social conditions Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Restructuring employment and work and neo-liberal transitions; 1 Employment and work restructuring in transition; 2 The babble of euphemisms; Part II Workplace transformations and trade unions in transition; 3 Trade unions and the politics of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 Broken networks and a tabula rasa?; Part III Gender, work and employment in transition; 5 Out with the old, in with the new?; 6 `Awoman is everything'; 7 Restructuring labour markets on the frontier of the European Union8 Gender and entrepreneurship in post-communist Hungary; 9 Gender and labour market restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe; Part IV ; New forms of employment and survival strategies; 10 Sources of subsistence and the survival strategies of urban Russian households; 11 Economic strategies of surviving post-socialism; 12 Rethinking `survival' in austerity; 13 Gulag Europe?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical contributions to our understanding of these transformations.