Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The struggle for access: exposing the centrality of personal relationships; 3 Transition and the Soviet legacy: Western ideology and Soviet reality; 4 A world of textiles: the market, the industry and the enterprise; 5 Structures and strategies in transition; 6 The consequences of outsider control; 7 Controlling workers: the policy of productivity in transition; 8 Labour and technological discipline; 9 Conclusions; References; Index
Summary
Based on extensive factory-level fieldwork research, this book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic transition
