Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia

This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia in a time of economic reform. Based on extensive research, it analyses the strategies of contemporary vocational education graduates and highlights their significance for wider processes of social change and social stratification in post-Soviet Russia.

Charles Walker is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, and Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.

1. Introduction 2. Youth transitions in theoretical perspective 3. Transitions in transition 4. Managing transitions: the IVET system in Ul'ianovsk Oblast' 5. Virtual transitions: from 'inheritance' to individualization 6. 'Learning to learn': making and breaking educational transitions 7. Re-embedding transitions: social networks and role playing.