Recasting East Germany : social transformation after the GDR / edited by Chris Flockton and Eva Kolinsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flockton, Christopher.

Kolinsky, Eva.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany (East)--Social conditions.

Germany (East).

Germany (East)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The transformation of east Germany since unification has wrought vast changes in the economy and in society and left deep scars as the types of social protection offered by the centralised socialism of the previous regime gave way to uncertainties and individualised life chances. Social Transformation in Eastern Germany investigates the deep economic and social processes which east Germany has undergone, highlighting the restructuring, the social impacts and the stresses of adjustment experienced by key social groups whose workplace and social context has been recast almost out of recognition

Contents:

Recasting East Germany: Social Transformation after the GDR; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Recasting East Germany: An Introduction; The New East German Economy: Problems of Transition, Unification and Institutional Mismatch; Employment, Welfare Support and Income Distribution in East Germany; The Impact of German Unification on the German Industrial Relations System; Housing Situation and Housing Policy East Germany; The East German Family: Change and Continuity; Women, Work and Family in the New Länder: Conflicts and Experiences

Education Transformed? The East German School System since the WendePolitical Participation of Young People in East Germany; Social Transformation Studies and Human Rights Abuses in East Germany after 1945; Multiculturalism in the Making? Non-Germans and Civil Society in the New Länder; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

"First appeared in a special issue of German politics, Volume 7, no. 3 (December 1998)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-32498-4

0-203-04495-9

1-283-83957-1

1-136-32490-9

9780203044957

OCLC:

821173354