The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class

The industrial workers of Ukraine have a contradictory and complex political lifeworld. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, this book focuses on the everyday politics and moral economy that constitute the working-class and structures its relations with other social groups.

Denys Gorbach is a teaching and research adjunct at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His research interests include political economy, social movements, and working-class formation in the post-Soviet region.

Denys Gorbach is a teaching and research adjunct at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His research interests include political economy, social movements, and working-class formation in the post-Soviet region.

“There is elegant coverage and discussion of Ukraine’s recent history and politics. Conceptually and methodologically the book is coherent and well justified.” • Jeremy Morris, Aarhus University

“This is a very substantial body of work. The insights are both novel and nuanced. While the account is especially compelling in that it is centered in Ukraine, there really is no comparable work of this depth for any of the post-Soviet states.” • Stephen Crowley, Oberlin College