Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union - A Legacy of Discrimination (Hardcover, New)

The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new market system and the old legacy of discrimination. The Soviet Union was the first country to give women equal rights and equal pay, but this was not carried through in practice. This is the first study to apply modern econometrics to survey-data collected in the USSR. Analysis of data from Russia shows how legislative equality hid actual discrimination. Katz also challenges the conventional wisdom that, for ideological reasons, Soviet manual workers were favored over the highly educated. Gender, Work and Wages in the Soviet Union includes a critical survey of economic theories of gender and wages and the Soviet wage system. The final chapter brings the debate up to date by examining how old and new mechanisms of gender inequality interact in post-Soviet Russia.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	K. Katz
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-73414-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > Employment & unemployment Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-333-73414-9
Barcode:	9780333734148

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