1st Edition
Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia Vocational youth in transition
By Charles Walker
Copyright 2011
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Youth transitions in theoretical perspective 3. Transitions in transition 4. Managing transitions: the IVET system in Ul’ianovsk Oblast’ 5. Virtual transitions: from ‘inheritance’ to individualization 6. ‘Learning to learn’: making and breaking educational transitions 7. Re-embedding transitions: social networks and role playing.
Biography
Charles Walker is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, and Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.
"By carefully contextualising the empirical case study, both in relation to Soviet structures of education and employment and to a range of theoretical perspectives of youth transition in sociology, this book is of interest both to area studies specialists and sociologists." - Suvi Salmenniemi, Zhanna Chernova & Larisa Shpakovskaya (2013) - Europe-Asia Studies
