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...

Household Accounts -- Contents -- A Note on Household Accounts and Its Preparation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Living on the Margin": Working-Class Marriages and Family Survival Strategies -- 2. "Cooperative Conflict": Gender, Generation, and Consumption in Working-Class Families...

This volume comprises 12 chapters, each accounting for a particular aspect of worker well-being. Among the issues addressed are: employee compensation, job loss, disability, health, gender, education, contract negotiation, and macroeconomic labor policy. The volume provides answers to a number...