Work Without Wages: Russia's Non-Payment Crisis

by Padma Desai and Todd Idson

Focusing on the roots and scale of wage nonpayment, the book is an indispensable guide to understanding Russia's economic restructuring and of the social costs of the transition born by the general population.

The seventy-year-old Soviet tradition of "wages without work" soon turned into "work without wages" when the planned economy began switching to a market system in 1992. Lack of budget discipline, the breakdown of contractual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262041847
• ISBN13: 9780262041843
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher