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Not only is this book about welfare, but it is also the product of an enormous amount of welfare. Since I began conducting research in Hungary in 1987, I have invented many needs for this project and for myself. Luckily, I have also been the recipient of multiple forms of social assistance: institutional, intellectual, material, and familial forms of welfare sustained me as I researched and wrote this book.

Most broadly, this book would not have been possible without the institutional support of the University of California. From start to finish, the book was a product of this outstanding institution. In the 1980s, many sociologists at the University of California at San Diego engaged my sociological imagination and deepened my understanding of East/Central Europe. In particular, I thank Martha Lampland, Charles Nathanson, Gershon Shafir, and Jeff Weintraub. During most of the 1990s, I was fortunate to be part of the Sociology Department at the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley, I received all the intellectual support that a graduate student needs and deserves. I am especially grateful to members of my dissertation committee, Michael Burawoy, Nancy Chodorow, Jerome Karabel, and Mary Ryan—all of whom, in their own ways, left an imprint on my sociological development and on the ideas advanced in this book. I am particularly indebted to Michael Burawoy, who served as my mentor and most benevolent “need interpreter” for nearly a decade. Michael provides a model as a theorist, an ethnographer, and a teacher that I will always strive to emulate. While at Berkeley, I formed many friendships that continue to sustain me. Among others, I thank Shana Cohen, Sharon Cooley, Laura Lovett, Ágnes Mihalik, Lisa Pollard, Elizabeth Rudd, Suava Salameh, Elsa Tranter, and my fellow Global Ethnographers. Finally, I am grateful to the University of California Press, especially to Naomi Schneider for her unflagging support of this book and to Pamela Fischer for her excellent editing of it.

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