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This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations. Everyday Post-Socialism demonstrates how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis and relative poverty they faced after the fall of socialist projects and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation. Morris shows the ‘other life’ in today’s Russia which is not present in mainstream academic discourse or even in the media in Russia itself. This book offers co-presence and a direct understanding of how the local community lives a life which is not only bearable, but also preferable and attractive when framed in the categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.

Social sciences. --- Russia --- Anthropology. --- Social structure. --- Social inequality. --- Industrial sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Structure, Social Inequality. --- Sociology of Work. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Russian and Post-Soviet Politics. --- Politics and government. --- Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Employment --- Social classes --- Labor --- Russia-Politics and government. --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Human beings --- Social aspects --- Social groups. --- Family. --- Russia—Politics and government. --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social conditions --- 2000-2099 --- Russia. --- 1917 --- Rosja --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Ṛusastan --- Russian Empire --- Russie --- Russland --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences --- Equality.

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This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations. Everyday Post-Socialism demonstrates how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis and relative poverty they faced after the fall of socialist projects and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation. Morris shows the ‘other life’ in today’s Russia which is not present in mainstream academic discourse or even in the media in Russia itself. This book offers co-presence and a direct understanding of how the local community lives a life which is not only bearable, but also preferable and attractive when framed in the categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.

Social sciences (general) --- Social stratification --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Sociology --- Politics --- Industrial economics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- sociologie --- arbeidersklasse --- industrie --- politiek --- sociale wetenschappen --- armoede --- arbeid --- gezin --- sociale ongelijkheid --- socialisme --- Russia

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Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the "digital music commodity," Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture considers how a conflicted assemblage of technologies, users, and industries helped reformat popular music's meanings and uses. Through case studies of five key technologies-Winamp, metadata, Napster, iTunes, and cloud computing-this book explores how music listeners gradually came to understand computers and digital files as suitable replacements for their stereos and CD. Morris connects industrial production, popular culture, technology, and commerce in a narrative involving the aesthetics of music and computers, and the labor of producers and everyday users, as well as the value that listeners make and take from digital objects and cultural goods. Above all, Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture is a sounding out of music's encounters with the interfaces, metadata, and algorithms of digital culture and of why the shifting form of the music commodity matters for the music and other media we love.

Music trade --- Music and the Internet. --- Digital jukebox software --- Digital music manager software --- Jukebox software --- Music manager software --- Music --- Sound --- Internet and music --- Internet --- Music business --- Music industry --- Cultural industries --- Technological innovations. --- Computer programs --- Recording and reproducing --- Digital techniques --- Music and the Internet --- Technological innovations --- E-books --- cloud computing. --- digital jukebox. --- digital music commodity. --- digital music. --- history of digital music. --- history of music technology. --- history of music. --- history of recorded music. --- industrial production of music. --- itunes. --- media studies. --- metadata. --- music and the internet. --- music criticism. --- music history. --- music in popular culture. --- music industry. --- music marketing. --- music technology. --- music. --- musicians. --- napster. --- popular music studies. --- winamp.

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Informal sector (Economics) --- Informal sector (Economics) --- Informal sector (Economics) --- Small business --- Small business --- Small business --- Post-communism --- Post-communism --- Post-communism --- Secteur informel (Economie politique) --- Secteur informel (Economie politique) --- Secteur informel (Economie politique) --- Petites et moyennes entreprises --- Petites et moyennes entreprises --- Petites et moyennes entreprises --- Postcommunisme --- Postcommunisme --- Postcommunisme --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects --- Aspect économique --- Aspect économique --- Aspect économique