Everyday Post-Socialism Working-Class Communities in the Russian Mar
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 peop
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Jeremy Morris
Everyday Post-Socialism
Jeremy Morris
Everyday Post-Socialism Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins
Jeremy Morris University of Birmingham, UK
ISBN 978-1-349-95088-1 ISBN 978-1-349-95089-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95089-8
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Cast of Characters
The main informants who feature in this book [all are pseudonyms]:
Galina’s Circle Galina Vilgel’movna: gregarious and imperious blue-collar forewoman, breadwinner and head of household. 55 years old. Works at Polymer, the chief ‘inheritor’ company in Izluchino. Married to Ivan Ivanych, and mother of two children. Born in neighbouring region but came to Kaluga region in 1980s in search of work. Ivan Ivanych: excitable yet easy-going retired workman, married to Galina. 55 years old. Had worked as technician at the oil terminal, and machine operator at a mineral-powdering facility, among other enterprises in the town. Elena: early 20s stay-at-home mum, and daughter of Galina and Ivan. Younger sister to Julia. Used to work at the kindergarten, but since having a baby she has no intention of returning to work anytime soon as she has enough ‘home work’ doing nails and cutting hair for cash. Julia: Late 20s, married to Petr. Trains as child psychologist while working in a call centre on the nightshift. Experiences sense of anomie at obtaining white-collar career yet remaining in blue-collar milieu. Caught between narratives of self-improvement and social mobility, and v
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Cast of Characters
working-class ethical dispositions
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