...This chapter reflects on the culture of societal survival. The world is characterized by all-powerful corporate executives, overwhelming market forces, dictators, gangsters, entrenched elected politicians, stubborn people with ideas different from yours, and general all-purpose destructive chaos...

... cites the importance of the drive to activate the feeling of being a khoziain within reform projects while the perestroika reformers proposed activating such ownerly feelings by tying workers' material well-being directly to their enterprises' market success. The heart of perestroika's...

...This chapter investigates how Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party, later renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), transformed Russian territories under its control. Under Joseph Stalin, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics replaced the free market economy with a state-controlled...

...This chapter begins by recounting Volkswagen's entry into the US car market after World War II and the construction of the company's first factory in the United States three decades later. It then traces three union recognition elections in Chattanooga. The United Auto Workers (UAW) actually won...

... slavery, and the role of white women was limited to that of mothers who would instruct future male citizens. The chapter follows how this imperative continued into the era of the market revolution, where the growth of wage labor began to diminish the potential of economic independence for a greater number...

... patriarchy. A patriarchal kin contract defined social membership of the market largely through the membership of patrilineal families. The chapter highlights the importance of the state's role in reproducing the hegemony of patriarchal families such as the House of Umar. The state reinforced patriarchal...

...This chapter offers a chronological outline of corruption in postcommunist Hungary. After the peaceful transition from a one-party dictatorship and a command economy to a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a market economy, the country had started to catch up with the West. However, after...

..., the regulation of the art market generated considerable controversy both inside and outside Italy. The chapter points out that the blurred distinction between living and dead artists complicated art laws and fostered stereotypes of Italian deceit. The chapter discusses how the Italian government's struggle...

... reveals a great deal about the challenges and difficulties faced by participants in the land market at the time. It also provides clues to the real value of land. The chapter then describes the business of land dealing in several of the more carefully investigated of these speculations, including...

... were teaching farmers how to plant manioc in ways that matched the rhythm and needs of a newly developing market. The treatment of colonial and postcolonial government officials, scientists, and aid workers of the tuber highlighted colonial and postcolonial aspirations for the land and people...

... and the advertising and marketing that propelled it encountered, early on, staunch and ardent resistance. This chapter considers the place of Marxism in issues surrounding commercial promotion and its role in fashioning popular culture. In particular, it analyzes the arguments of Marxist social critics...

..., the Yugoslav political-administrative establishment had produced surprisingly little in the way of official or even quasi-official rules or guidelines regarding these phenomena. This absence of concrete governmental measures to restrict market culture and check the perceived excesses of consumer culture is one...

...This chapter examines the unorthodox socialist critique of consumer culture developed by a group of revisionist Marxists skeptical of—and even openly antagonistic toward—the market-oriented premises (and promises) of self-management socialism in Yugoslavia. More specifically, it considers...

... in most programs of labor market reform: the deregulation of labor markets. It then considers tensions of social reproduction and protection, with particular emphasis on how increasing labor market fluidity and a corresponding growth in contingent and contract employment reduce training incentives...

...This chapter examines the reregulatory face of labor market reform by focusing on social accommodation as it relates to labor markets and social policy. More specifically, it considers how Asian governments have sought to manage the tensions associated with labor market reregulation by redirecting...

...This chapter examines the role of small-enterprise policy in addressing the developmental deficits of labor market reform. Asian governments have pursued a variety of policies designed to foster and stimulate small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In most cases, those efforts were directed...

... of interests and power among elites and elite factions plays the dominant role in many other policy domains, elite conflict is less salient in matters relating to labor market policy, labor relations, and worker training that tend more often to unite employers and governments in their collective, oppositional...

... of the pound in terms of the US dollar. This was both the goal and the measure of success: in the exchange rate market, one pound ought to be worth $4.86. Next, this was a conquest. It began with a struggle between contending claimants for England's throne, but it did not end until many of England's political...

...This chapter evaluates rural credit in India, assessing why the law has fared so poorly in regulating the rural credit market and enhancing farmer welfare. It begins by detailing the regulation of rural credit and the rise of the microfinance industry since the celebrated economic reforms of 1991...

..., there was no plan for a complete elimination. Torgsin was to continue trading for foreign-currency cash and money transfers from abroad. In other words, the government intended to preserve some legal hard-currency market, although Torgsin had to reorient entirely to the external sources of foreign exchange...