Work and Welfare in the New Russia

by Manning, Nick P.; Shkaratan, Ovsey; Tikhonova, Nataliya E.; George, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781840145304
• ISBN10: 1840145307
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

The UNDP announced on 29th July 1999 that 'A human crisis of monumental proportions is emerging in the former Soviet Union.' This book reports on the crisis through original and detailed data made possible by the changes that have taken place in Russia in the 1990s. Based on an EU and ODA funded project, it examines in depth the patterns of contemporary unemployment and poverty, the origins of Russian social policies and their aims, implementation and effects up to 2000. The conclusion situates the findings within a discussion of the future of the Russian welfare state and the policy choices, alternatives and consequences emerging in the context ofcurrent social conflicts.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vi
Authors/Translator	viii
Preface	x
Acknowledgements	xiv
Part I Background and Project Design
Russia in Trouble	3	(28)
Soviet Social Policy	31	(25)
Russian Social Policy	56	(30)
Project Methodology	86	(53)
Moscow, St. Petersburg and Voronezh	139	(20)
Part II Social Policy: Actors and Debates
Social Policy Actors	159	(47)
Russian Debates on Social and Employment Policy	206	(51)
Part III Surviving Poverty and Unemployment
Welfare, Resources and Household Survival	257	(58)
Unemployment and Employment Strategies	315	(56)
Part IV The State of Russian Welfare
Social Policy and Social Order	371	(28)
Bibliography	399