Everyday Post-Socialism: Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins

By Jeremy Morris

Book Overview

Part I. Spaces and Places.- Introduction: The 'Worthless' Dowry of Soviet Industrial Modernity.- 1. Blue-collar Personhood after the Factory.- 2. Informal Economy: going underground but coming out of the shadows.- 3. A Woman's Kingdom? Affect, care and regendering labour.- Part II: Unhomely Presents - Uncertain Futures.- 4. Unhomely Presents: Trauma and values of endurance among older people.- 5. No Country for Young Men: encountering neoliberalism in transnational corporations.- Part III: On Personhoods in Place.- 6. Intimate Ethnography and Cross-cultural Research.- Conclusions. Making Habitable Lives in Small-town Russia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349957240
• ISBN13: 9781349957248
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"