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Here, for the first time in English translation, are contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire. Written by workers and other close observers of their milieu, these five selections recreate the world of Russian labor during a period of rapid industrialization and social change, a world far more complex and varied than has often been assumed. The accounts in The Russian Worker explore the daily experiences, social relations, and aspirations of factory, artisanal, and sales-clerical workers, both in and outside the place of employment. Through the eyes of contemporaries we see the routine, the organization of work, and authority relations on the shop floor as well as conditions that workers encountered in providing for food and lodging and their experiences in the areas of religion, recreation, cultural activities, family ties, and links with the countryside. With its vivid and detailed descriptions of working-class life, The Russian Worker provides new material on such important topics as the formation of workers' social identities, the position of women, patterns of stratification, and workers' concepts of status differentiation. An introductory essay by Victoria Bonnell places the selections in an historical context and examines some of the central issues in the study of Russian labor. The collection will be of value t only to specialists in the Russian field, but also to historians, sociologists, ecomists, and others with an interest in the sociology of work, and the history of working women.

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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520050592

ISBN-139780520050594

eBay Product ID (ePID)95820124

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

Publication NameRussian Worker : Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1983

SubjectSociology & Anthropology: Professional

TypeTextbook

AuthorVictoria E. Bonnell

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback (Us), Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Height240mm

Width150mm

Weight59g

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication03/10/1983

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Place of PublicationBerkerley

Spine16mm

Edited byVictoria E. Bonnell

GenreSociology & Anthropology: Professional

Country of PublicationUnited States

Author BiographyVictoria E. Bonnell is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (California, 1997) and Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914 (California, 1983).

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