1st Edition

The Development of Capitalism in Russia

By Simon Clarke Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a broad and comprehensive survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet economic system to the present, and includes the results of substantial new research on the current state of a wide range of Russian enterprises. Simon Clarke – a well-known authority in this area: surveys the old Soviet system charts the progress through the... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Theorising the Transition  3. The Soviet Industrial Enterprise  4. The Soviet Enterprise in the Transition Crisis  5. The Corporate Management of Russian Enterprises  6. Labour Relations and Personnel Management  7. Changes in Payment Systems  8. Line Management: Between Capital and Labour  9. The Distinctiveness of Russian Capitalism.  The Case-Study Enterprises

Biography

Simon Clarke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He has been co-ordinating research projects in the field of labour and employment with colleagues in the former Soviet Union since 1991 and has published extensively with his colleagues in English and Russian. His current research focuses on trade unions in the Former Soviet Union, China and Vietnam.