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The Informal Post-Socialist Economy: Embedded Practices and livelihoods

The Informal Post-Socialist Economy: Embedded Practices and livelihoods

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe

EconomicsGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415854911
ISBN13: 9780415854917
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 3 2013
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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. 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.

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