Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Restructuring employment and work and neo-liberal transitions; 1 Employment and work restructuring in transition; 2 The babble of euphemisms; Part II Workplace transformations and trade unions in transition; 3 Trade unions and the politics of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 Broken networks and a tabula rasa?; Part III Gender, work and employment in transition; 5 Out with the old, in with the new?; 6 ̀Awoman is everything'
7 Restructuring labour markets on the frontier of the European Union8 Gender and entrepreneurship in post-communist Hungary; 9 Gender and labour market restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe; Part IV New forms of employment and survival strategies; 10 Sources of subsistence and the survival strategies of urban Russian households; 11 Economic strategies of surviving post-socialism; 12 Rethinking ̀survival' in austerity; 13 Gulag Europe?; Index
Summary
Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical contributions to our understanding of these transformations
