TY - JOUR

T1 - Development of Social Work in the Russian "Consumer Society"

AU - Grigoryeva, Irina A.

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - The reason for writing this article was the 20th anniversary of institutionalization of social work in Russia in 2011. It is believed that both the social work and the consumer society are products of market economics/capitalism development. However, modern Russia experiences two controversial processes: rapid development of capitalism and erosion of employment and labour – labour conditions are becoming worse, salaries and pensions are falling down. The core issue of this paper is how the “society of deficiency” with full employment and without poor people – traditional clients of social work – has become a consumer society with well-developed social work.

AB - The reason for writing this article was the 20th anniversary of institutionalization of social work in Russia in 2011. It is believed that both the social work and the consumer society are products of market economics/capitalism development. However, modern Russia experiences two controversial processes: rapid development of capitalism and erosion of employment and labour – labour conditions are becoming worse, salaries and pensions are falling down. The core issue of this paper is how the “society of deficiency” with full employment and without poor people – traditional clients of social work – has become a consumer society with well-developed social work.

KW - Social work

KW - Russia

KW - russian society

KW - government

KW - consumerism

M3 - Article

SP - 27

EP - 36

JO - ERIS web journal

JF - ERIS web journal

SN - 1804-0454

IS - 2

ER -