• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Onega; Pitkäranta; karelia*; Northwest Russia; Republic of Karelia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.498.1316; http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/publications/presentations/papers/ap_2_2006.pdf

The uncertainties of the industrial restructuring influenced the employee-mill relationships in the working community structures of the privatised industrial enterprises of the 1990s in Northwest Russia. The socio-spatial reshaping of these micro fabrics of the mill communities are scrutinised in this study by focusing on the role of the workplace in industrial employees ’ daily lives in 1999 and 2000 amidst two distinct employee generations. On the one hand, there is the “Soviet ” generation with their long experiences of the Soviet mills. On the other hand, there is the “post-Soviet ” generation of the 1990s – that is, the employees who were hired after the privatisations of the previous Soviet mills were launched in the 1990s. The study focuses on recognising what happened in this local precondition for the new social geographies of the working community structures of the three industrial case study localities from Northwest Russia. The research material comprises employee interviews and interviews with the mill managers and administrators from the pulp mill of Pitkäranta and Onega Tractror Factory in Petrozavodsk, in the Republic of Karelia, and from the St.