Titlebook: Everyday Post-Socialism; Working-Class Commun Jeremy Morris Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Russia.informal

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Book 2016categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.

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Blue-Collar Personhood After the Factorysponsive blue-collar worker, whether in the ex-Soviet factories or TNC car production lines. The case study illustrates the huge labour turnover in enterprises, the reality of autonomy and labour discipline on the shop floor in Soviet and postsocialist periods. Are such people a ‘precarious’ class i

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Informal Economy: Going Underground but Coming Out of the Shadowssponse to uncertainty and contingency is explored here. Manual work in informality builds a personhood based on self-reliance, but also trust in socially equal others. Masculine spaces of leisure, sociality and work are explored where working-class ‘authentic’ manhood can be rehearsed and even exper

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A Woman’s Kingdom? Affect, Care and Regendering Labour link between work and care, even if there is little to care about in the actual production at the company. Where the enterprise has abandoned its role as caregiver to its workers and the town, workspaces become a place of care for co-workers, self-esteem, and a source of complex affective attachmen

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Unhomely Presents: Trauma and Values of Endurance Among Older Peoplel and welfare residualization, loss in terms of status and belonging, which work provided, is still felt as trauma. These workers benefited materially during the socialist period and maintained economic assets such as housing and land outside the town. The chapter dramatizes the abrupt and woeful ru

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No Country for Young Men: Encountering Neoliberalism in Transnational Corporationsorkers travel to new multinational companies such as Samsung and Volkswagen. The transition from Soviet-type enterprise, management and labour habitus are tracked. Car ownership serves as a metaphor of the degree to which workers internalize or resist governmentality. While there are stories of upwa

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Conclusions: Making Habitable Lives in Small-Town Russial urbanity in Russia. But the ethos of people in Izluchino is the propertizing of social life in spite of insecurity. Habitability emerges in small acts of relatedness, practices and classed being. The local and micro-level responses to social and economic changes in Izluchino are somewhere between