Work orientations and employment behaviour

Ashwin, Sarah; Козина, Ирина Марксовна; Popova, Irina; Zhidkova, Elena A.

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“…Unstable employment was the most commonly cited explanation for starting a heavy drinking career. This could reflect the widely held idea that profession and stable employment is crucial for a man's sense of identity and self-esteem, and instability in this arena is understandable cause for drinking [22,27]. …”

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“…This was in part driven by a rapid and chaotic programme of privatisation of many parts of the economy, which in turn has been linked to the increases in mortality seen in Russia and other Eastern European countries during the transition [21]. Economic inequality increased rapidly and hardships were exacerbated by the sudden collapse of the Soviet social safety net [22,23]. …”

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Alcohol and fatal life trajectories in Russia: understanding narrative accounts of premature male death in the family

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BackgroundIn the post-Soviet period, Russian working-age men have suffered unusually high mortality rates. Earlier quantitative work found that part of this is attributable to hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption, which increased in the period of transition at a time of massive social and economic disruption and uncertainty. However, there has been very little work done to document and understand in detail the downward life trajectories of individual men who died prematurely from alcohol-related conditions. Building on an earlier case-control study, this unique qualitative study investigates the perceived interplay between men's drinking careers, their employment and family history, health and eventual death.MethodsIn-depth interviews were conducted with close relatives (most often the widow) of 19 men who died between 2003 and 2005 aged 25-54 years whose close relatives reported that alcohol contributed to their death. The study was conducted in a typical medium-sized Russian city. The relative's accounts were analysed using thematic content analysis.ResultsThe accounts describe how hazardous drinking both contributed to serious employment, family and health problems, and was simultaneously used as a coping mechanism to deal with life crises and a decline in social status. The interviews highlighted the importance of the workplace and employment status for shaping men's drinking patterns. Common themes emerged around a culture of drinking in the workplace, peer pressure from colleagues to drink, use of alcohol as remuneration, consuming non-beverage alcohols, Russian-specific drinking patterns, attitudes to treatment, and passive attitudes towards health and drinking.ConclusionsThe study provides a unique insight into the personal decline that lies behind the extremely high working-age mortality due to heavy drinking in Russia, and highlights how health status and hazardous drinking are often closely intertwined with economic and social functioning. Descriptions of the development of drinking careers, hazardous drinking patterns and treatment experiences can be used to plan effective interventions relevant in the Russian context.

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Alcohol and fatal life trajectories in Russia: understanding narrative accounts of premature male death in the family

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“…However, the greatest disparity is between the sexes: men drink more frequently, consume more spirits, and are several times more likely to binge drink (Bobak et al 1999 ; Malyutina et al 2001 ; Nicholson et al 2005 ; Pomerleau et al 2008 ; Bobrova et al 2010 ). Heavy drinking is considered more socially acceptable for men than for women (Van Gundy et al 2005 ) and is perceived to play an important role in the social and business life of men, acting as a form of stress management (Mustonen 1997 ; Ashwin 2006 ; Pietilä and Rytkönen 2008a ; Saburova et al 2011 ). In this normative setting heavy drinking amongst men may be seen as an indicator of social ‘normality’, a coping strategy, but among women as indicative of a form of dysfunctionality.…”

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The impact of alcohol consumption on patterns of union formation in Russia 1998–2010: An assessment using longitudinal data

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Using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, 1998–2010, we investigated the extent to which patterns of alcohol consumption in Russia are associated with the subsequent likelihood of entry into cohabitation and marriage. Using discrete-time event history analysis we estimated for 16–50 year olds the extent to which the probabilities of entry into the two types of union were affected by the amount of alcohol drunk and the pattern of drinking, adjusted to allow for social and demographic factors including income, employment, and health. The results show that individuals who did not drink alcohol were less likely to embark on either cohabitation or marriage, that frequent consumption of alcohol was associated with a greater chance of entering unmarried cohabitation than of entering into a marriage, and that heavy drinkers were less likely to convert their relationship from cohabitation to marriage.

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‘In My Opinion, Work Would be in First Place and Family in Second’: Young Women's Imagined Gender–Work Relations in Post-Soviet Lithuania

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2010

Journal of Baltic Studies

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This article explores young women's orientation to work and motherhood in the post-communist context of radical socio-economic transformation in Europe. Based on a qualitative-explorative study into meanings of work and unemployment among young people in post-Soviet Lithuania, the paper introduces an empirically grounded classification of imagined gender-work arrangements. The single patterns of the classification are based on the three configurations of work and motherhood, work and partnership, and work and provision. The findings inform the reconstruction of the 'landscape' of imagined gendered adulthoods in Europe as well as the analysis of emerging gender relations under conditions of rapid social change.

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Work orientations and employment behaviour

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Alcohol and fatal life trajectories in Russia: understanding narrative accounts of premature male death in the family

Alcohol and fatal life trajectories in Russia: understanding narrative accounts of premature male death in the family

The impact of alcohol consumption on patterns of union formation in Russia 1998–2010: An assessment using longitudinal data

‘In My Opinion, Work Would be in First Place and Family in Second’: Young Women's Imagined Gender–Work Relations in Post-Soviet Lithuania

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