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Making ends meet in contemporary Russia : secondary employment, subsidiary agriculture, and social networks / Simon Clarke.
Lippincott Library HD5854.55.R8 C55 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, Simon, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Supplementary employment--Russia (Federation).
- Supplementary employment.
- Labor market--Russia (Federation).
- Labor market.
- Russia (Federation).
- Cost and standard of living--Russia (Federation).
- Cost and standard of living.
- Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--1991-.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 283 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Household subsistence in the Russian economic crisis 1
- 2 Secondary employment 10
- Definition and data sources 10
- Scale of secondary employment 16
- Kinds of secondary employment 26
- Characteristics of secondary employment 41
- The incidence of secondary employment 61
- Income from secondary employment 79
- Secondary employment as an element of a household survival strategy 85
- 3 The Russian dacha and the myth of the urban peasant 113
- The Russian crisis and the rise of self-sufficiency 113
- How extensive is the use of land by urban households in Russia? 114
- How much of Russia's food is home-grown? 118
- Deciding to use a dacha 125
- Testing the hypotheses 131
- Why do people use dachas? 144
- Dachas and the domestic production of food 150
- The dynamics of dacha use 158
- The costs and benefits of domestic food production 159
- The myth of the urban peasant? 167
- 4 Social networks and private transfers 178
- Are gift networks symmetrical? 185
- How much do households rely on the help of others? 188
- Private transfers: charity or reciprocity? 195
- 5 Do Russian households have survival strategies? 236
- The notion of a 'household survival strategy' 237
- Do households have survival strategies? 239
- Do households have survival strategies? 247
- Do households pursue distinctive survival strategies? 252
- The gender dimension of survival strategies 256.
- Notes:
- This book is a sequel to an earlier book, 'The formation of a labour market in Russia' (Clarke, 1999).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840642629
- OCLC:
- 50164621
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