Originally presented at workshops held at University College London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The market in everyday life : ethnographies of postsocialism / Caroline Humphrey and Ruth Mandel -- Women and the culture of entrepreneurship in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan / Farideh Heyat -- The shame and pride of market activity : morality, identity and trading in postsocialist rural Bulgaria / Deema Kaneff -- Heritage and enterprise culture in Archangel, northern Russia / Julian Watts -- Dealing with money : zlotys, dollars and other currencies in the Polish highlands / Frances Pine -- Chasing moths : cleanliness, intimacy and progress in Romania / Adam Drazin -- Re-constructing the "normal" : identity and the consumption of western goods in Estonia / Sigrid Rausing -- Manufacturing the new consumerism : fast-food restaurants in postsocialist Hungary / Andrʹe P. Czeglʹedy -- Coping with the market in rural Ukraine / Louise Perrotta -- Mongolia in the "age of the market" : pastoral land-use and the development discourse / David Sneath -- Broadening the concept of privatization : gender and development in rural Kazakhstan / Rosamund Shreeves.