Managing Firms and Families: Work and Values in a Russian City

by Daria Tereshina

This book investigates the moral dimensions of petty capitalism in Russia. Drawing on an ethnographic enquiry into the small-scale, family-based private sector of the city of Smolensk, it examines the values, moral ideas and sentiments that are entangled in the everyday workings of small businesses. The book situates the realm of values within the broader dynamics of Russia's political economy and the global circuits of capital. The moral frameworks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3643914083
• ISBN13: 9783643914088
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Length: 214 Pages