Work, employment, and transition : restructuring livelihoods in post-communism /
edited by Al Rainnie, Adrian Smith and Adam Swain
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- [xii], 276 p. : ill, maps ; 24 cm.
- Routledge studies of societies in transition ; 15 .
"This book arises in part out of an Economic and Social Research Council research seminar series entitled 'Restructuring Employment and Work in East-Central Europe', which ran from early 1999 until late 2000." - Introduction
List of figures and tables. - List of contributors. - Acknowledgements. - Introduction : work, employment and transition / Al Rainnie, Adrian Smith And Adam Swain. - Pt. I. Restructuring employment and neo-liberal transitions. 1. Employment and work restructuring in transition / Al Rainnie, Adrian Smith And Adam Swain. 2. The babble of euphemisms: re-embedding social protection in 'transformed' labour markets / Guy Standing. - Pt. II. Workplace transformations and trade unions in transition. 3. Trade unions and the politics of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe / John Thirkell And Sarah Vickerstaff. 4. Broken networks and a tabula rasa? 'Lean production', employment and the privatisation of the East German automobile industry / Adam Swain. - Pt. III. Gender, work and employment in transition. 5. Out with the old, in with the new? The changing experience of work for Polish women / Jane Hardy and Alison Stenning. 6. 'A women is everything': the reproduction of Soviet ideals of womanhood in post-communist Russia / Sarah Ashwin. 7. Restructuring labour markets on the frontier of the European Union: gendered uneven development in Hungary / Judit Timar. 8. Gender and entrepreneurship in post-communist Hungary / Janet Henshall Momsen. 9. Gender and labour market restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe / Mike Ingham and Hilary Ingham. - Pt. IV. New forms of employment and survival strategies. 10. Sources of subsistence and the survival strategies of urban Russian households / Simon Clarke. 11. Economic strategies of surviving post-socialism: changing household economies and gender divisions of labour in the Bulgarian transition / Mieke Meurs. 12. Rethinking 'survival' in austerity : economic practices and household economies in Slovakia / Adrian Smith. 13. Gulag Europe? Mass unemployment, new firm creation, and tight labour markets in the Bulgarian apparel industry /John Pickles. - Index.