This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia—the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected in official economic statistics. Based on numerous interviews with otkhodniks and local experts, this stunningly original work focuses on the central and northern regions of European Russia. The authors draw a social portrait of the contemporary otkhodnik and offer a sociological assessment of the economic and political status these "wandering workers" live with.
Price: $54.00
Pages: 300
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Publication Date:
01 June 2015
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838207131
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet
A really interesting book. Obvious are comparisons with other labor and social markets in China, the EU, and even in Australia.... Naturally, the local authorities do not concern themselves with these out-of-town workers, because they add nothing to their expenditure budgets but bring a lot into the spending side.
Juri Plusnin is professor in the Department for Public Administration at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.
Yana Zausaeva, Natalia Zhidkevich, and Artemy Pozanenko are analysts at the Laboratory for Local Administration at the HSE.
Preface
Preface to the 2013 Russian edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The phenomenon of otkhodnichestvo
2. Russian otkhodnichestvo: milestones
3. A study of contemporary otkhodnichestvo
4. Estimating the population of otkhodniks
5. Regional specialization by type of craft
6. Otkhodnik in society Who, why and for what purpose seeks jobs away from home?
7. Otkhodnik in society Expected and actual compensation, working conditions and reasons to give up otkhodnichestvo
8. Otkhodnik at home
9. Otkhodniks and the State
10 Otkhodnichestvo as a new factor of social and political life in Russia
Conclusion
Literature
