Other Transitions: Multiple Economies of Moscow Households in the 1990s

摘要: Abstract This article examines survival strategies of urban households in post-socialist cities during the transition from Soviet system to a market economy. The links outcomes systemic transformation daily lives and connects change induced by mass privatization class gender processes inside households. These “other transitions” everyday are consistently overlooked macroeconomic approaches that dominate among theorists policy consultants. focus is on Moscow neighborhood who attempt meet competing demands earning income, fulfilling domestic responsibilities, securing child care rapidly changing context. diverse formal informal economic practices analyzed using model “multiple economies” include paid work, work for cash, unpaid labor, help kind, cash networks extended family, fri...