Involution and Destitution in Capitalist Russia

By M. Burawoy, P. Krotov, T. Lytkina. 2000

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Men in Crisis in Russia (2004, background): “Academic commentators have also noted the difficulty that many men appear to be experiencing in coping with economic change (Burawoy et al. 2000; Kiblitskaya 2000a; Rotkirch 2000).”
Corruption in the post-Soviet workplace: the experiences of recent graduates in contemporary Ukraine (2008, unknown): “…character and consequences cannot be controlled’ and it is argued that rather than a fully functioning market system many post-Soviet states have seen systems of ‘economic involution’ (Burawoy et al., 2000), ‘chaotic capitalism’ (Lane, 2000) or ‘virtual economies’ (Gaddy and Ickes, 1998) emerge.”
The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India (2012, background): “…gains from speculative land markets, which, in the absence of productive linkages from the SEZ, are invested overwhelmingly and with uneven success in forms of rentiership and exchange, creating an involutionary (Geertz 1963, Burawoy 1996, 2001, Burawoy et al. 2000) dynamic of agrarian change.”