Despite a growing number of studies featuring “informality” in their title, including many from
the post-socialist region, little has been done to reach a consensus on what informality …

While the importance of consumption of luxury goods as a mechanism accompanying
upwards movement in a social hierarchy has been well acknowledged, attention to the role …

Reflecting on the results of the shadow economy survey, as conceptualized by Putnis and
Sauka and implemented in Ukraine in 2019 for the first time, the goal of the current article is …

In the second half of the 2010s, far-right populist parties gained increasing power and
influence across Europe, and around the world. Core to their ethnonationalist, anti-elite …

Over the last 30 years, the inhabitants of Hoyerswerda, the German Democratic Republic's
second socialist model city, have struggled through de-industrialisation, unemployment …

Across former Eastern Europe, the transition from state socialism toward neoliberal
capitalism has been accompanied by a marked reduction in emphasis on working-class …

In diesem Kommentar bestärkt Felix Ringel die von Bernt und Holm formulierten Thesen
zum Scheitern der deutschen Ostdeutschlandforschung und fragt, erstens, nach den …

This thesis examines Bulgarian migration to the UK since the lifting of work restrictions in
2014. Contesting the economic reductionism of mainstream migration literature, my aim is to …

This chapter discusses the quasi-corporatist labour relations in the USSR. Soviet Taylorism
necessitated the absorption of unions into the apparatus of state from the very beginning …

Following life-stories of former women retailers in Russia, this research shows that the rapid
emergence of petty entrepreneurship in the post-Soviet transformation period is a …