Name: Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia: Vocational Youth in Transition
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Author: Charles Walker
ISBN: 9781138995314

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Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia: Vocational Youth in Transition

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Walker

Publisher

Routledge

Language

English

Pages

248

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781138995314

Edition No.

Synopsis "Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia: Vocational Youth in Transition"

This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform. Based on extensive ethnographic research in a provincial Russian region, it follows the experiences of vocational education graduates whose colleges continue to channel them into the ailing industrial and agricultural sectors. Rather than settling for transitions into 'poor work', the book shows how these young men and women develop a range of strategies aimed at overcoming the poverty of opportunity available to them in traditional enterprises, pursuing instead emerging opportunities in higher education, jobs in the new service sector and the prospect of migration. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Charles Walker analyses these strategies and their significance for wider processes of social change and social stratification in post-Soviet Russia.

Charles Walker

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Charles "Chuck" Walker is an American writer, the president of the MacArthur Foundation in International Human Rights, and a professor of Latin American history at the University of California, Davis. He also serves as the director of his Hemispheric Institute of the Americas. His interests include Peru, natural disasters, social movements, subaltern politics, truth commissions, and sports and empires.

Among his best works are The Conquest of the Andes: How the Inca Empire Fell to the Spanish and Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Politics of the Early Spanish Colony. These investigations offer a deep look into the history of the region, combining methods of historical analysis with sociocultural studies. His interdisciplinary approach has been key in understanding the history of the Andean peoples and their legacies.

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