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Author Walker, John Charles.

Title Learning to labour in post-Soviet Russia : vocational youth in transition / Charles Walker
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Series BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 69
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 69
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Youth transitions in theoretical perspective -- 3. Youth transitions in the post-Soviet context -- 4. Managing transitions : the IVET system in Ul'ianovsk Oblast' -- 5. Virtual transitions : from 'inheritance' to individualization -- 6. 'Learning to learn' : making and breaking educational transitions -- 7. Re-embedding transitions : social networks and role-playing -- 8. Conclusion
Summary This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia in a time of economic reform. Based on extensive research, it analyses the strategies of contemporary vocational education graduates and€highlights their€significance for wider processes of social change and social stratification in post-Soviet Russia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Youth -- Employment -- Russia (Federation)
School-to-work transition -- Russia (Federation)
Youth -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions
Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Post-communism -- Social aspects
School-to-work transition
Youth -- Employment
Youth -- Social conditions
Russia (Federation)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780415479851
0415479851
9780203837870
0203837878