The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World: The End of Transition?

by Colin C. Williams, Peter Rodgers, John Round

Based on extensive ethnographic and quantitative research, conducted in Ukraine and Russia between 2004 and 2012, this book's central argument is that for many people the informal economy, such as cash in hand work, subsistence production and the use of social networks, is of great importance to everyday life. Formal work is both a facilitator of such processes and is often supported by them, as people can only afford to undertake low paid formal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415567211
• ISBN13: 9780415567213
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"