Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces write by J. Morris. This book was released on 2015-06-23. Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition.
Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces
Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces write by J. Morris. This book was released on 2015-06-23. Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition.
The Informal Post-Socialist Economy
The Informal Post-Socialist Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Informal Post-Socialist Economy write by Jeremy Morris. This book was released on 2013-12-13. The Informal Post-Socialist Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions. Going beyond a conception of informality as opposed to the formal sector, its authors demonstrate the fluid nature of informal transactions straddling the crossroads between illegal, illicit, socially acceptable and symbolically meaningful practices. Their argument is informed by a wide range of case studies, from Central Europe to the Baltics and Central Asia, each of which is constructed around a single informant. Each chapter narrates the story of a composite person or household that was carefully selected or constructed by an author with long-standing ethnographic research experience in the given field site. Wide in geographical, empirical and theoretical scope, the book uses ethnographic narrative accounts of everyday life to make links between ‘ordinary’ meanings of informality. Challenging reductively economistic perspectives on cross-border trading, undeclared work and other informal activities, the authors illustrate the wide variety of interpretive meanings that people ascribe to such practices. Alongside ‘getting by’ and ‘getting ahead’ in recently marketised societies, these meanings relate to sociality, kinship-ties and solidarity, along with more surprising ‘political’ and moral reasonings.
The Informal Economy
The Informal Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Informal Economy write by Ioana Horodnic. This book was released on 2017-09-22. The Informal Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During much of the twentieth century, informal employment and entrepreneurship was commonly depicted as a residue from a previous era. Its continuing presence was seen to be a sign of "backwardness" whilst the formal economy represented "progress". In recent decades, however, numerous studies have revealed not only that informal employment is extensive and persistent but also that it is growing relative to formal employment in many populations. Whilst in the developing world, the informal economy is often found to be the mainstream economy, nevertheless, in the developed world too, informality is currently still estimated to account for notable per cent of GDP. The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices intends to engage with these issues, providing a much-need ‘contextualised’ approach to explain the persistence and growth of forms of informal economic practices and entrepreneurial activities in the twenty-first century. Using a diverse range of empirical case studies from Europe, Africa, North Africa and Asia, this book unpacks the different varieties of forms of informal work and entrepreneurship and provides a critical analysis of existing theorisations used to explain such phenomena. This book’s aim is to examine the nature and persistence of informal work and entrepreneurship, across a variety of empirical settings, from within the developed world, the developing world and within transformation economies within post-socialist spaces. Given its worldwide, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach and recent interest in the informal economies by a number of disciplines and organisations, this book will be of vital reading to those operating in the fields of: Economics, political economy and management, Human and economic geography and Economic anthropology and sociology as well as development studies
Everyday Post-Socialism
Everyday Post-Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Post-Socialism write by Jeremy Morris. This book was released on 2016-09-01. Everyday Post-Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations. Everyday Post-Socialism demonstrates how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis and relative poverty they faced after the fall of socialist projects and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation. Morris shows the ‘other life’ in today’s Russia which is not present in mainstream academic discourse or even in the media in Russia itself. This book offers co-presence and a direct understanding of how the local community lives a life which is not only bearable, but also preferable and attractive when framed in the categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.
