The Kalamari Union : middle class in east and west / edited by Markku Kivinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kivinen, Markku.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Sociology--Comparative method.

Middle class.

Social classes.

Social change.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, [1998]

Contents:

Introduction: Class Analysis in East and West ix

Part I Entrepreneurs

1 Transformation of the Estonian Enterprise Sector from a Planned System towards Market Economy / Kari Liuhto 3

2 'New Russians' and Social Change / Johan Backman 15

3 Entrepreneurs in Contemporary Political Structures / Galina Eremicheva, Nina Solovieva 36

4 Petty Production in Baltic Agriculture: Estonian and Lithuanian Models / Ilkka Alanen 39

5 Attitudes towards Privatization: Winners and Losers / Meilute Taljunaite, Aleksandras Cesnavicius 71

Part II Wage-Earning Middle Classes in Formation

6 Formation of Class Structure under Conditions of Radical Social Change: An East European Experience / Kazimierz M. Slomczynski 89

7 The New Middle Strata in Modern Russia / Vladimir Ilyin 118

8 Non-Identical Twins: The Formation of the Middle Class in Israel / Amir Ben-Porat 130

9 Intragenerational Mobility and Middle Class Formation in Estonia / Ellu Saar, Jelena Helemae 149

Part III Managers and Professionals

10 A Russian Middle Class in Formation? Social Strata and Sectional Trade Unionism in the Aviation and Coal Industries / Peter Fairbrother 179

11 Managerial Change in Estonia / Harri Melin 204

12 On Transition to the Middle Class: Professional Strategies of Young Intellectuals in Russia / Victoria Semenova 220

13 The Fate of Party Functionaries in Post-Soviet Russia / Alla Bystrova 230

14 The Middle Classes in the Baltic States

Theoretical Starting Points / Markku Kivinen 242

Part IV Identity and Lifestyle of the Middle Classes

15 The Middle Class and Civil Society / Mihail Chernysh 257

16 Capitalism and Democracy in Two Baltic Countries / Jouko Nikula 265

17 Class Differences in Consciousness and Reproduction in the Baltic Countries / Raimo Blom 278

18 Increasing Differences? Social Background and the Breakthrough of Affluence in Finland 1955-1966 / Timo Toivonen 299

19 From Status to Class: The Emergence of a Class Society in Russia / Timo Piirainen 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1840140496

OCLC:

37947240