Acknowledgements

Introduction: work, employment and transition

PART I Restructuring employment and work and neo-liberal transitions

Employment and work restructuring in transition

The babble of euphemisms: re-embedding social protection in 'transformed' labour markets

PART II Workplace transformations and trade unions in transition

Trade unions and the politics of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

Broken networks and a tabula rasa? 'Lean production', employment and the privatisation of the East German automobile industry

PART III Gender, work and employment in transition

Out with the old, in with the new? The changing experience of work for Polish women

`A woman is everything': the reproduction of Soviet ideals of womanhood in post-communist Russia

Restructuring labour markets on the frontier of the European Union: gendered uneven development in Hungary

Gender and entrepreneurship in post-communist Hungary

Gender and labour market restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe

PART IV New forms of employment and survival strategies

Sources of subsistence and the survival strategies of urban Russian households

Economic strategies of surviving post-socialism: changing household economies and gender divisions of labour in the Bulgarian transition

Rethinking 'survival' in austerity: economic practices and household economies in Slovakia

Gulag Europe? Mass unemployment, new firm creation, and tight labour markets in the Bulgarian apparel industry

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