The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism

By L. Holmes. 2004

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Informal creative labour practices: A relational work perspective (2018, background): “…in the Ukraine earmark cash-inhand payments from patients as relation-enhancing ‘tokens of gratitude’ rather than relation-corrupting ‘bribery’, while Humphrey (2002) elucidates how low-paid building inspectors discursively legitimize the fraudulent acceptance of under-the-table payments as…”
Everyday tactics and spaces of power: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine (2008, unknown): “As previous studies, mainly in relation to Russia, have discussed (see e.g. Arnsberg and Borén 2003; Humphrey 2002; Round 2006), in order to provide a basic standard of living for their family many people turn to informal practices to provide additional income.”
Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy (2014, background): “…of models as well as the struggles over their local definition produce at different scales (Burawoy and Verdery 1999; Humphrey 2002; Mandel and Humphrey 2002; Verdery 1996), as Pine (2014) and Jansen (2014) demonstrate vividly with ethnographic materials from postsocialist Poland and Bosnia…”
Corruption in the post-Soviet workplace: the experiences of recent graduates in contemporary Ukraine (2008, background): “The majority of research on post-Soviet labour markets is focused on those who also worked within the Soviet system (in addition to those discussed above, see, for example, Caldwell, 2004; Humphrey, 2002; Seabright, 2000).”