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Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia

Vocational youth in transition

Charles Walker author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:4th Sep '15

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This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform. Based on extensive ethnographic research in a provincial Russian region, it follows the experiences of vocational education graduates whose colleges continue to channel them into the ailing industrial and agricultural sectors. Rather than settling for transitions into ‘poor work’, the book shows how these young men and women develop a range of strategies aimed at overcoming the poverty of opportunity available to them in traditional enterprises, pursuing instead emerging opportunities in higher education, jobs in the new service sector and the prospect of migration. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Charles Walker analyses these strategies and their significance for wider processes of social change and social stratification in post-Soviet Russia.

"By carefully contextualising the empirical case study, both in relation to Soviet structures of education and employment and to a range of theoretical perspectives of youth transition in sociology, this book is of interest both to area studies specialists and sociologists."- Suvi Salmenniemi, Zhanna Chernova & Larisa Shpakovskaya (2013) - Europe-Asia Studies

ISBN: 9781138995314

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 362g

248 pages