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After the fall of the wall : life courses in the transformation of East Germany / edited by Martin Diewald, Anne Goedicke, and Karl Ulrich Mayer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in social inequality.
- Studies in social inequality
- Studies in social inequality After the fall of the wall
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany (East)--Social conditions.
- Germany (East).
- Germany (East)--Economic conditions.
- Germany--History--Unification, 1990.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 380 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany created a new social order. This book draws a comprehensive picture of life course transformation, demonstrating how the combination of life course dynamics coupled with an extraordinary pace of system change affect individual lives.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Tables and figures
- Preface
- Chapter one. After the Fall of the Wall: Living Through the Post-Socialist Transformation in East Germany
- Chapter two. Society of Departure: The German Democratic Republic
- Chapter three. A “Ready-Made State”1: The Mode of Institutional Transition in East Germany After 1989
- Chapter four. Old Assets, New Liabilities? How Did Individual Characteristics Contribute to Labor Market Success or Failure After 1989?
- Chapter five. Firms and Fortune: The Consequences of Privatization and Reorganization
- Chapter six. Lost in Transformation? Disparities of Gender and Age
- Chapter seven. The Rise of Meritocracy? Class Mobility in East Germany Before and After 1989
- Chapter eight. Family Formation in Times of Abrupt Social and Economic Change
- Chapter nine. Community Lost or Freedom Gained? Changes of Social Networks After 1989
- Chapter ten. Spirals of Success and Failure? The Interplay of Control Beliefs and Working Lives in the Transition from Planned to Market Economy
- Chapter eleven. Comparing Paths of Transition: Employment Opportunities and Earnings in East Germany and Poland During the First Ten Years of the Transformation Process
- Chapter twelve. The Quest for a Double Transformation: Trends of Flexibilization in the Labor Markets of East and West Germany
- Chapter thirteen. Unusual Turbulences—Unexpected Continuities: Transformation Life Courses in Retrospective
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Glossary
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-372) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-7945-7
- OCLC:
- 1294427025
- Publisher Number:
- 9780804752084
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