The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

Denys Gorbach is a teaching and research adjunct at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His research interests include political economy, social movements, and working-class formation in the post-Soviet region.

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Introduction



Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Context



Chapter 1. Populism, Moral Economy, Informality: Imbricating the Political

Chapter 2. Ukrainian Political Economy: Embedded in the Moral Economy of Property Regimes and Identity Cleavages



Part II: The City



Chapter 3. From a Military Outpost to an Oligarchic Stronghold

Chapter 4. Archeology of Power: Regimes of Domination Reflected in the Urban Infrastructure



Part III: The Factory



Chapter 5. Informality and Hierarchies at the Soviet and Post-Soviet Workplace

Chapter 6. Paternalism in Decay: Post-Post-Soviet Inertia

Chapter 7. Politicized Embeddedness, Depoliticized Disembeddedness: New Factory Regimes



Part IV: Everyday Politics



Chapter 8. Distinction and Class: Strategies of Self-Valorization

Chapter 9. Mapping Lay Virtues on the National Political Landscape

Chapter 10. Political Attitudes and Attitude to Politics: Apathy and Authoritarian Anti-Corruption



Conclusion



References

Index