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Title The future of market transition / edited by Kevin T. Leicht
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : JAI, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 415 pages) : table, figure
Series Research in social stratification and mobility ; v. 19
Research in social stratification and mobility ; v. 19.
Contents Front Cover; THE FUTURE OF MARKET TRANSITION; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: MARKET TRANSITION AND LESSONS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE; CHAPTER 1. POSTSOCIALIST INEQUALITIES: THE CAUSES OF CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY; CHAPTER 2. AN OUTLINE OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SOCIALISM OR AN AUTO-CRITIQUE OF AN AUTO-CRITIQUE; CHAPTER 3. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WORKING CLASS? ERRORS OF AN UNREPENTANT MARXIST; PART II: INSIGHTS INTO THE TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKET INSTITUTIONS; CHAPTER 4. BIRTH OF A MARKET ECONOMY: HUNGARIAN AGRICULTURE AFTER SOCIALISM
Summary The collapse of the state-controlled economies of the former Eastern Bloc will certainly change the way the global economy operates. Bringing together scholars from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, different nations and different empirical research traditions, this title examines the ongoing transition and the implications of market transitions for individual life chances, state economic policy and social stratification systems. The volume includes scholarship that focuses on both single nation and cross-national research, plus research contributions that compare state socialist/for
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Subject Post-communism -- Economic aspects
Labor market -- Europe, Eastern
Labor market -- China
Social stratification -- Europe, Eastern
Social stratification -- China
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
Economic history
Labor market
Post-communism -- Economic aspects
Social stratification
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000332
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
Subject China
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Leicht, Kevin T.
ISBN 9780080544472
0080544479
1281025682
9781281025685