Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societies. However, working-class people are often stigmatised, morally judged and depicted negatively in dominant discourses.
This book challenges stereotypical representations of workers, building on research into the everyday worlds of working-class and ordinary people in Russia’s post-industrial cities. The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia is centred on the stories of local communities engaged in the everyday struggles that occur in deindustrialising settings under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism.
The book suggests a novel approach to everyday life in post-industrial cities. Drawing on an ethnographic study with elements of arts-based research, the book presents a new genre of writing about workers influenced by the avant-garde documentary tradition and working-class literature. -- .
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical sketches
1. Synthesising a theory of urban life and everyday struggle
Part II: Ways of life
2. Local atmospheres and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods
3. A gendered sense of place: intersectional inequalities in urban space
4. Moral value and signifiers of class
5. The social imaginary of Russian society: lay perceptions of inequality
Part III: Ways of struggle
6. Open protests: formation of political consciousness
7. The everyday forms of resistance: formation of practical consciousness
Epilogue
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