What’s in a Job?

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Scholars of critical political economy, development studies, feminist IPE, and post-socialist studies all need to read this book!” — David Bailey, Associate Professor in Politics, University of Birmingham, UK. “This edited book is an urgent contribution that thinks beyond the confines of the ‘transition’ paradigm, locating postsocialist labour in the global processes of neoliberal capitalism and rethinking precarity as an exception to the norm of secure employment”. — Daria Krivonos, Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, Finland. “For focus and scope, this is pioneering work: Galdini and Pesci have put together an impressive team of contributors, who deploy intriguing (and much-needed) qualitative methods to discuss how the region’s labour politics developed across the post-Soviet era”. — Luca Anceschi, Professor in Eurasian Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. Franco Galdini is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), University of Birmingham, UK. Eugenia Pesci is PhD candidate and researcher in the LIFEMAKE project at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. This book situates the transformation in the world of work and employment relations in Central Asia within broader and uneven processes of labour precarisation in the global political economy during the past decades. Contributions show how a region that has largely remained marginal to the discipline of political economy can inform the theorisation of labour precarity and its gender-differentiated dynamics in rural, urban, and migrant contexts in and beyond the post-socialist world. Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking Labour, Gender, and Precarity in Central Asia is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.  

This book situates the transformation in the world of work and employment relations in Central Asia within broader and uneven processes of labour precarisation in the global political economy during the past decades. Contributions show how a region that has largely remained marginal to the discipline of political economy can inform the theorisation of labour precarity and its gender-differentiated dynamics in rural, urban, and migrant contexts in and beyond the post-socialist world. The chapter authors illustrate this through different case studies from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, using data gathered from several rounds of fieldwork up to 2025.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking Labour, Gender, and Precarity in Central Asia is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Franco Galdini

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Critical political economy Feminist political economy Labour studies Post-socialist area studies Post-Soviet area studies Gendered labour precarisation Productive and reproductive economy Social reproduction Workforce informalisation and casualisation Central Asia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

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“What’s in a Job? brings together a truly impressive range of scholars with expertise that spans critical political economy and the post-socialist context of Central Asia. It shows in outstanding qualitative detail and richness, based on a hugely impressive wealth of ethnographic research, the lived reality of both urban and rural precarity, and the gendered form this takes across the region. Where much of the post-socialist studies literature portrays this as merely a question of delayed transition away from the legacy of the Soviet Union, this volume instead reveals a regional manifestation of the global trend towards precariousness as it occurs across global capitalism. Scholars of critical political economy, development studies, feminist IPE, and post-socialist studies all need to read this book!” (David Bailey, University of Birmingham, UK)

“This edited book is an urgent contribution that thinks beyond the confines of the ‘transition’ paradigm, locating postsocialist labour in the global processes of neoliberal capitalism and rethinking precarity as an exception to the norm of secure employment.” (Daria Krivonos, University of Helsinki)

“Central Asia is often seen as a place of economic contestation, one wherein processes of globalisation and neoliberalism shape governance and continuously redistribute power. What’s in a Job? looks beyond prior work on such issues by investigating and discussing precarity and precarisation in some of the region’s key labour markets. For focus and scope, this is pioneering work: Galdini and Pesci have put together an impressive team of contributors, who deploy intriguing (and much-needed) qualitative methods to discuss how the region’s labour politics developed across the post-Soviet era.” (Luca Anceschi, University of Glasgow)

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