The Informal Post-Socialist Economy

Embedded Practices and livelihoods

210 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions. Going beyond a conception of informality as opposed to the formal sector, its authors demonstrate the fluid nature of informal transactions straddling the crossroads between illegal, illicit, socially acceptable and symbolically meaningful practices. Alongside 'getting by' and 'getting ahead' in recently marketised societies, these meanings relate to sociality, kinship-ties and solidarity, along with more surprising 'political' and moral reasonings.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Ethnic Studies / Ethnizität
• ISBN: 9780415854917
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.12.2013
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Routledge
• Herausgegeben von: Abel Polese, Jeremy Morris