Work, Employment and Transition

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ISBN: 9780415249423 | 0415249422
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Copyright: 3/29/2002

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Employment and labor market restructuring in Central and East European economics have been rapid and profound since the adoption of market reform policies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This collection brings together essays analyzing the changing nature of work in the transition economies of Easter Europe and the former Soviet Union.

List of figures and tables

vii

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

xii

Introduction: work, employment and transition

(4)

Al Rainnie

Adrian Smith

Adam Swain

PART I Restructuring employment and work and neo-liberal transitions

(50)

Employment and work restructuring in transition

(28)

Al Rainnie

Adrian Smith

Adam Swain

The babble of euphemisms: re-embedding social protection in 'transformed' labour markets

(20)

Guy Standing

PART II Workplace transformations and trade unions in transition

(42)

Trade unions and the politics of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

(17)

John Thirkell

Sarah Vickerstaff

Broken networks and a tabula rasa? 'Lean production', employment and the privatisation of the East German automobile industry

(23)

Adam Swain

PART III Gender, work and employment in transition

(94)

Out with the old, in with the new? The changing experience of work for Polish women

(18)

Jane Hardy

Alison Stenning

`A woman is everything': the reproduction of Soviet ideals of womanhood in post-communist Russia

117

(17)

Sarah Ashwin

Restructuring labour markets on the frontier of the European Union: gendered uneven development in Hungary

134

(21)

Judit Timar

Gender and entrepreneurship in post-communist Hungary

155

(15)

Janet Henshall Momsen

Gender and labour market restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

170

(21)

Mike Ingham

Hilary Ingham

PART IV New forms of employment and survival strategies

191

(82)

Sources of subsistence and the survival strategies of urban Russian households

193

(20)

Simon Clarke

Economic strategies of surviving post-socialism: changing household economies and gender divisions of labour in the Bulgarian transition

213

(14)

Mieke Meurs

Rethinking 'survival' in austerity: economic practices and household economies in Slovakia

227

(19)

Adrian Smith

Gulag Europe? Mass unemployment, new firm creation, and tight labour markets in the Bulgarian apparel industry

246

(27)

John Pickles

Index

273

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