The informal post-socialist economy : embedded practices and livelihoods /
Morris, Jeremy,1974-editor.
Polese, Abel,editor of compilation.
Introduction: Informality: enduring practices, entwined livelihoods / Jeremy Morris and Abel Polese -- "Entrepreneurial" informality? Self- and off-the-books employment. The diverse livelihood practices of health-care workers in Ukraine: the case of Sasha and Natasha / Colin C Williams and Olga Onoschenko ; The story of Arunas: an invisible citizen of Lithuania / Ida Harboe Knudsen ; Moonlighting strangers met on the way: the nexus of informality and blue-collar sociality in Russia / Jeremy Morris ; Nannies and informality in Romanian local childcare markets / Borbála Kovács ; Drinking with Vova: an individual entrepreneur between illegality and informality / Abel Polese ; When is an illicit taxi driver more than a taxi driver? Case studies from transit and trucking in post-socialist Slovakia / David Karjanen -- At home abroad? Transnational informality and the invisible flows of people and goods. From shuttle trader to businesswomen: the informal bazaar economy in Kyrgyzstan / Anna Cieslewska ; "Business as casual": shuttle trade on the Belarus-Lithuania border / Olga Sasunkevich ; "The glove compartment half-full of letters": informality & cross-border trade at the edge of the Schengen area / Kristine Müller and Judith Miggelbrink ; Informal economy writ large and small: from Azerbaijani herb traders to Moscow shop owners / Lale Yalçin-Heckmann.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Informal sector (Economics)
Informal sector (Economics)
Informal sector (Economics)
Small business
Small business
Small business
Post-communism
Post-communism
Post-communism