Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism - A History of the Shuttle Trade

Little has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s. The term itself seems to suggest something of a rather small scale. Indeed, the amount of each transaction in this trade was miniscule. Individual peddlers traveled to near-abroad with their bulging bags and...

Zusammenfassung

By the mid-1990s, shuttle trade - a practice in which individual peddlers travel abroad and then return with foreign merchandise in their suitcases for resale-constituted the backbone of Russian consumer trade and was a substantial source of revenue. This book assesses the reasons why women were attracted to this business.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Irina Mukhina
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.07.2014
• EAN: 9780875804804
• ISBN: 978-0-87580-480-4
• Seiten: 277
• Serie: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika