Everyday Post-socialism: Working-class Communities In The Russian Margins
by Jeremy Morris /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar
workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping
with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational
corporations.
This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar
workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping
with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational
corporations.Everyday Post-Socialism
Everyday Post-Socialism demonstrates
how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis and
relative poverty they faced after the fall of socialist projects
and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation.
Morris shows the ‘other life’ in today’s Russia which is not
present in mainstream academic discourse or even in the media in
Russia itself. This book offers co-presence and a direct
understanding of how the local community lives a life which is not
only bearable, but also preferable and attractive when framed in
the categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and
seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific
values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal
economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.
demonstrates
how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis and
relative poverty they faced after the fall of socialist projects
and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation.
Morris shows the ‘other life’ in today’s Russia which is not
present in mainstream academic discourse or even in the media in
Russia itself. This book offers co-presence and a direct
understanding of how the local community lives a life which is not
only bearable, but also preferable and attractive when framed in
the categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and
seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific
values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal
economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.
