A Russian Factory Enters the Market Economy

Based upon extensive factory-level fieldwork research, 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. This much-needed study explores the evolution of Russian managerial practices, and: focuses upon changes in ownership, management and...
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Based upon extensive factory-level fieldwork research, 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. This much-needed study explores the evolution of Russian managerial practices, and: focuses upon changes in ownership, management and labour organization, unveiling the complex texture of social, communal and gender relations in the workplace, including through crisis and bankruptcy, acquisition by new capitalist owners and attempted restructuring engages with key issues, such as social domination, power and conflict, that capture the problematic and open-ended character of social and economic transformation in post-Soviet production demonstrates that far from a simple transition to a market economy, the post-Soviet transition has reproduced most of the features of the old Soviet system, including its patterns of labour relations.; The book makes a distinctive argument, attacking the Western managerial theories, which put the failures of Russian transition down to irrational Russian managerial practices, that the rationale for the continued reliance on Soviet era managerial practices lay in the form of social relations in the workplace which were characteristic of the Soviet system.