Precarious labour: Russias other transition

Marianna Pavlovskaya

Chapter 13 in The Handbook of Diverse Economies, 2020, pp 129-136 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: A major outcome of the post-socialist transition in Russian has been widespread and persistent poverty. For three decades now, the capitalist economy has consistently failed to provide stable employment forcing large populations of the post-Soviet poor, as well as the thin middle class, to secure livelihoods through various forms of precarious work involving short-term, insecure, low-paid, unregulated and often off-the books employment. The case of Russia demonstrates the effects of neoliberal policies with particular clarity and may be indicative of a likely global neoliberal future unless challenged by researchers, activists, politicians, policymakers, and, as ever, people themselves. This chapter focuses on temporary labour migration that became a livelihood strategy for the large number of increasingly precarious workers and its yet to be recognized political possibilities.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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