Work, Employment and Transition: Restructuring Livelihoods in Post-communismAl Rainnie, Adrian Smith, Adam Swain Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical contributions to our understanding of these transformations. |
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