scholarly journals Wage Arrears, Poverty, and Family Survival Strategies in Russia

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desai Padma ◽  
Todd Idson
Keyword(s):  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Family Survival ◽  
Wage Arrears

The Condition of Labor in Post-Soviet Russia

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
World War ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Enterprise Level ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Wage Arrears

Labor (meaning both wage workers as well as their collective representation) in Russia was a major loser in the decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Aggregate data on prices, average wage and pension levels, wage arrears, and unemployment indicate a serious decline in workers’ standard of living that is unprecedented in the post-World War II era, while strike data show an upsurge in this form of worker militancy during the mid-1990s but a decline thereafter.This article seeks to explain both why these developments occurred and what prevented workers from adequately defending their collective interests. Four explanations have been advanced by Western and Russian scholars. The first is that workers were victims of state policies pursued in line with the“Washington consensus” on how to effectuate the transition from an administrative-command to a market-based economy. The second points to workers’ attitudes and practices that were prevalent under Soviet conditions but proved inappropriate to post-Soviet life. The third, claiming that several key indices of workers’ standard of living are misleading, denies that labor has been a loser. The fourth and most compelling of the explanations is derived from ethnographically based research. It argues that despite changes in the forms of property and politics, power relations at the enterprise level remained intact, leaving workers and their unions dependent on the ability of management to bargain with suppliers of subsidies and credits. The article concludes with some observations about workers’ survival strategies and the extent to which collective dependence on economic and political strongmen has worked against structural change in favor of labor.

Survival of the Excluded: Azerbaijani Immigrant Women’s Survival Strategies and Industrial Work in Istanbul

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saniye Dedeoglu
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Export Industry ◽  
Industrial Work ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Family Survival

In recent years, Turkey has become a popular destination for the irregular migration of Azerbaijani people. Every year almost half a million Azeri come to Turkey for various reasons. However, most of these migrants seek employment in the large Turkish informal sector. This paper is an attempt to build the survival strategies of Azerbaijani migrants into the existing migration literature and show how these strategies can also be a way of generating a successful export industry in Turkey. In this regard, survival strategies developed by Azeri migrants in response to the Turkish migration regime, which is designed to exclude every migrant not considered somehow ethnically Turkish, include family migration, maximising family income while minimising the cost of daily family survival.

scholarly journals STRATEGI BERTAHAN HIDUP KELUARGA PEDAGANG PENGECER CAKAR DI PASAR TERONG KOTA MAKASSAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Astria Astria ◽  
Idham Irwansyah ◽  
Mario Mario S.M
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Family ◽  
Passive Strategies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Family Survival ◽  
Prior Analysis

This study aims to determine the profile of socio-economic life and the strategy of family survival of the claw retailers in Pasar Terong, Makassar City. The retrieval of informants in the study was carried out by purposive sampling with 12 families of informants. In this study, researchers used observation data collection techniques, interviews and documentation. The analysis technique used is qualitative data analysis techniques, descriptive in nature (prior analysis in the field and data analysis in the field). The results showed that the profile of the socio-economic life of the claw retailers family was not yet feasible. The family survival strategies of claw retailers include active strategies (family members participate in earning a living and sell leftovers to pa'lever or pa'drop), passive strategies (making savings and saving) and network strategies (making loans and receiving assistance from the government) .

Göç ve hayatta kalma mücadelesi: İstanbul'da Azerbaycanlı kadın göçmenlerin hayatta kalma mücadelesi ve endüstriyel üretim - Survival of the excluded: Azerbaijani immigrant women's survival strategies and industrial work in Istanbul

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-372
Author(s):  
Saniye Dedeoglu
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Export Industry ◽  
Industrial Work ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Family Survival

In recent years, Turkey has become a popular destination for the irregular migration of Azerbaijani people. Every year almost half a million Azeri come to Turkey for various reasons. However, most of these mi-grants seek employment in the large Turkish informal sector. This paper is an attempt to build the survival strategies of Azerbaijani migrants into the existing migration literature and show how these strategies can also be a way of generating a successful export industry in Turkey. In this re-gard, survival strategies developed by Azeri migrants in response to the Turkish migration regime, which is designed to exclude every migrant not considered somehow ethnically Turkish, include family migration, maximising family income while minimising the cost of daily family survival.[IN TURKISH]Son yıllarda Türkiye, Azerbaycan’dan gelen düzensiz göçmenler için cazip bir ülke haline gelmiştir. Her yıl neredeyse yarım milyon Azeri farklı nedenlerle Türkiye’ye gelmektedir. Fakat bu gelenlerin çoğu Türkiye’nin geniş enformel ekonomisinde istihdam imkanları aramaktadır. Bu açıdan, Türk etnik kökeninden gelmeyen hemen hemen tüm göçmeleri dışlama anlayışı üzerine kurulmuş göç rejiminde varolabilmek için geliştirilen yaşam mücadelesi yöntemleri, aile göçü, yaşam maliyetlerinin minimize edilmesi ve aile gelirinin maksimize edilmesidir. Bu yazının amacı Azerbaycanlı göçmenlerin yaşam ya da ayakta kalma stratejilerini ele alarak varolan literatüre katkı yapmak ve Azerilerin bu stratejilerinin Türkiye’nin en başarılı ihracat sektörlerinden birini yaratmak için katkı sağladığını göstermektedir.

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