Book description
Based on extensive ethnographic and quantitative research, conducted in Ukraine and Russia between 2004 and 2012, this book’s central argument is that for many people the informal economy, such as cash in hand work, subsistence production and the use of social networks, is of great importance to everyday life. Formal work is both a facilitator of such processes and is often supported by them, as people can only afford to undertake low paid formal work as a result of their informal incomes. By looking at the informal nature of formal work and practices, informal practices, gift giving, volunteer work and the economies of the household the book is one of the first to give an overview of the nature of the informal economy in all spheres of everyday practice.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
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Part I: (Re)theorising transition economies
- 2. Re-visiting the recurring question of transition
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3. Re-theorising the economic
- Introduction
- The formalisation thesis
- The marketisation thesis
- Towards a formal market economy: positive or negative?
- The formal market economy: natural or constructed?
- The formal market economy: a delusion?
- De-centring the formal market economy
- The role of informal economies in post-Soviet societies
- Conclusions: re-figuring the economic in post-Soviet societies
- 4. Beyond the formal-informal economy dualism: unpacking the diverse economies of post-Soviet societies
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Part II: The lived experience of transition
- 5. The role of the informal in the formal sphere
- 6. Informal employment
- 7. One-to-one unpaid labour, reimbursed family work and paid favours
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8. Formal and informal unpaid employment
- Introduction
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Formal unpaid employment
- Formal unpaid employment in the private and public sector
- Formal volunteering in post-Soviet societies
- Formal unpaid labour in Ukraine
- Formal unpaid labour in Moscow
- Lived experiences of formal unpaid employment in the private and public sectors in Ukraine and Moscow
- Lived experiences of formal unpaid labour in the third sector
- Informal unpaid employment
- Conclusions
- 9. The internal economies of the household
- 10. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781135036850
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