Russian workers : the anatomy of patience

232 Pages·1999·13.646 MB·English

by  Sarah Ashwin

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Russian workers
The anatomy of patience
SARAH ASHWIN
Manchester University Press
MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK
distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin’s Press
Copyright © Sarah Ashwin 1999
The right of Sarah Ashwin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted
by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Published by Manchester University Press
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK
and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA
http://www.man.ac.uk/mup
Distributed exclusively in the USA by
St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York,
NY 10010, USA
Distributed exclusively in Canada by
UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 6344 Memorial Road,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for
ISBN O 7190 5611 X hardback
First published 1999
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Typeset in Photina
by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester
Printed in Great Britain
by Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd, Midsomer Norton
Contents
Preface page vii
Acknowledgements xi
The anatomy of patience: Russian workers in transition from
communism
Vishnovka: portrait of a mining settlement in transition
Taldym: privatisation and its discontents
‘We always lead the way’: the Taldym trade union committee in
transition
Shop-floor trade unionism: the prospects of ‘reform from below’ bid
‘Our mine’: workers and the labour collective 120
The lampovaya: the stunted collectivism of the immediate work
group 146
Surviving the transition: individual and collective strategies 168
Conclusion 180
References 190
Index 17,
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