Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia

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  • ISBN 9781526167637
  • Weight: 441g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jan 2024
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societies. However, working-class people are often stigmatised, morally judged and depicted negatively in dominant discourses.

This book challenges stereotypical representations of workers, building on research into the everyday worlds of working-class and ordinary people in Russia’s post-industrial cities. The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia is centred on the stories of local communities engaged in the everyday struggles that occur in deindustrialising settings under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism.

The book suggests a novel approach to everyday life in post-industrial cities. Drawing on an ethnographic study with elements of arts-based research, the book presents a new genre of writing about workers influenced by the avant-garde documentary tradition and working-class literature.

Alexandrina Vanke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applies Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow

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