1st Edition

A Russian Factory Enters the Market Economy

By Claudio Morrison Copyright 2008
248 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic transition. Based on extensive factory-level fieldwork, it focuses upon changes in ownership, management and... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Struggle for Access: Exposing the Centrality of Personal Relationships  3. Transition and the Soviet Legacy: Western Ideology and Soviet Reality  4. A World of Textiles: The Market, the Industry and the Enterprise  5. Structures and Strategies in Transition  6. The Consequences of Outsider’s Control  7. Controlling Workers: The Policy of Productivity in Transition  8. Labour and Technological Discipline  9. Conclusions 

Biography

Claudio Morrison is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Warwick, where he completed his PhD. His research interests include labour relations, organisational change and enterprise management. He has published articles on these issues in leading journals, including Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Communist Economies and Research in Economic Anthropology.

"Claudio Morrison's book provides an insightful analysis of the experience of one textile factory during Russia's tumultuous transition." - Slavic Review, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Fall 2009)