Jürgen Jerger and Michael Knogler are the guest editors of the current issue's thematic part on "Informal Labour". Tatiana Karabchuk and Natalia Soboleva reveal the impact of informal employment on subjective well-being in European countries by examining the differences between countries through their employment protection legislations. Vassilis Monastiriotis and Angelo Martelli investigate the individual characteristics associated with nonstandard and informal employment in Serbia, and their changes over time (2008-2011). Ana Luleva surveys the mountain resort of Borovetz in Bulgaria and focuses on the dynamics and interrelationships of formal and informal practices of women in the tourism industry in the post-socialist period. Árpád Töhötöm Szabó presents the phenomenon of traditional reciprocal work (the kaláka) in rural Transylvania (Romania), offering insight into changes in the everyday conceptions and practices of work and thereby on the way morality and rationality as well as informality and formality have been interconnected. Alissa Tolstokorova addresses the formation of an informal labour market of paid domestic services as a new form of gender-specific reproductive labour in Ukraine. Apart from these contributions to the thematic part, Mieczysław P. Boduszyński explains the widespread Euroscepticism in Croatian society, which, a scarce two years after accession, largely remains ambivalent, indifferent, or even hostile to the ostensible benefits of EU membership. In addition, the issue features six book reviews.
CONTENTS
Informal Labour
Jürgen Jerger and Michael Knogler: Introduction: Formal and Informal Labour Relations in Southeastern Europe 393–396
Tatiana Karabchuk and Natalia Soboleva: Informal Employment and Subjective Well-being in Europe: Evidence from the European Social Survey Data 397–420
Vassilis Monastiriotis and Angelo Martelli: Labor-market Informality and Nonstandard Employment in Serbia during the Global Financial Crisis 421–439
Ana Luleva: Transformation in the Culture of Informality in Post-socialist Bulgaria. A Case Study on the Borovetz Tourist Resor 440–456
Árpád Töhötöm Szabó: Economic Regimes, Local Worlds and the Changing Meanings of Work in Rural Transylvania 457–478
Alissa Tolstokorova: Mary Poppins Comes Back: The Revival of Paid Domestic Work in the Informal Labour Market in Ukraine 479–499
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński: Euroscepticism, the Croatian Way: Explaining Croatian Attitudes towards the EU 500–522
Book Reviews
Soeren Keil, Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Wim van Meurs) 523–524
Anna Triandafyllidou / Ruby Gropas / Hara Kouki (eds.), The Greek Crisis and European Modernity (Heinz-Jürgen Axt) 525–526
Kristen Ringdal / Albert Simkus (eds.), The Aftermath of War. Experiences and Social Attitudes in the Western Balkans (Heike Karge) 526–528
Stefan Dorondel / Stelu Șerban (eds.), At the Margins of History. The Agrarian Question in Southeast Europe (Wim van Meurs) 528–529
Will Bartlett / Sonja Maleković / Vassilis Monastiriotis (eds.), Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe (Vjeran Katunarić) 530–532
Cecilie Endresen, Is the Albanian’s Religion Really “Albanianism”? Religion and Nation According to Muslim and Christian Leaders in Albania (Arolda Elbasani) 532–534