Optimize! Oil, Labor, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Kazakhstan.

Following the 2014–2015 oil price crisis, service companies in Kazakhstan went through a process of industrial restructuring centered on workforce reduction and a concomitant increase of labor outsourcing. Taking the restructuring – or "optimization" – of state-owned service companies in the region...

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Published in:	International Labor & Working-Class History Vol. 103; no. 162; pp. 24 - 44
Main Author:	Totaro, Maurizio
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Spring2023
Subjects:	Multilevel marketing Neoliberalism Manufacturing processes Petroleum Petroleum industry Exploitation of humans Multidimensional databases Kazakhstan
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