MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA: Formal and Informal Relations in the Period of Transition - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858980623 ISBN 13: 9781858980621

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Management and Industry in Russia is a major examination of production relations in Russian industry during the transition process. Using a series of authoritative and thorough case studies, the authors focus on the gap between formal and informal relations in the work place, a key feature of traditional Soviet industrial production.

Focusing on four contrasting regions in Russia - Moscow, Samara, Kuzbass and the Komi Republic - an experienced group of researchers has used a wide range of qualitative and ethnographical research methods to explore production relations in the Soviet enterprise. The research is based on a series of longitudinal case studies of between two and four enterprises in each region. The economic, social and political developments in each region have also been monitored.

Each of the papers in this collection focuses on one aspect of life in a post-Soviet enterprise which it places in the context of the interaction of formal and informal relations in production. The areas discussed include the Soviet system of production, attitudes to work, the specificity of Soviet production, paternalism in state management, the role of women, the role of middle management and the continuing importance of the plan and pay systems.

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Edited by Simon Clarke, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK and Scientific Director, Institute for Comparative Labour Relations Research (ISITO), Moscow, Russia

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858980623
• ISBN 13: 9781858980621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Clarke Simon