Making ends meet in contemporary Russia : secondary employment, subsidiary agriculture and social networks

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Making ends meet in contemporary Russia : secondary employment, subsidiary agriculture and social networks

Simon Clarke

Edward Elgar, 2002

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This book is a sequel to an earlier book, 'The formation of a labour market in Russia' (Clarke, 1999)

Bibliography: p.271-278

Includes index

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Throughout the 1990s, Russian households experienced a dramatic fall in their traditional sources of subsistence: wages and social benefits. Many commentators have argued that households have adopted 'survival strategies' that enable them to make ends meet, particularly taking second jobs, growing their own food and calling on the help of family and friends. This book reviews the available data to analyse the forms, scale and incidence of these phenomena. The author finds that so-called 'survival strategies' merely represent a continuation of traditional soviet practices. He demonstrates that they disproportionately benefit the better off and that they do not provide a means by which those who have suffered misfortune can compensate for a fall in their earnings. Instead, he illustrates that most Russian households have adapted simply by cutting expenditure rather than by finding new sources of income. The author concludes by arguing that the notion of a 'household survival strategy' is inappropriate for the study of post-soviet society. Based on the analysis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, Making Ends Meet in Contemporary Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the means by which Russian households have secured their subsistence in the face of a collapse in wages and employment since the end of the soviet system. It will be required reading for all students, scholars and researchers of transition studies, development studies and human geography.

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Contents: 1. Household Subsistence in the Russian Economic Crisis 2. Secondary Employment 3. The Russian Dacha and the Myth of the Urban Peasant 4. Social Networks and Private Transfers 5. Do Russian Households Have Survival Strategies? References Index

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