Working in the New Private Sector
Survival in a Non-Monetary Economy
The Urban Peasant: Myth or Reality?
Segmentation of the Russian Labour Market
These are all topics of considerable importance for an understanding of the realities of Russian life, but most of what has been written about them has been based on unsubstantiated anecdote and hearsay. The papers in this volume report on the findings of a large-scale research project involving an integrated programme of case study and survey research in four contrasting regions of Russia, as well as a systematic review of official and other data. This provides us with the first authoritative account of the scale, dynamics and forms of new private sector employment; the sources of income of urban households; the role of subsidiary agriculture in urban subsistence and the channels of and barriers to labour mobility.
First published1999
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