Recasting East Germany: Social Transformation after the GDR

ISBN-13: 9780714644967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 228 str.

Chris Flockton; Eva Kolinsky

Opis

The transformation of East Germany has changed the economy and society and left deep scars, as the types of social protection offered by the centralized socialism of the previous regime gave way to uncertainties and individualized life chances. While many faced labour market exclusion through unemployment or early retirement, others enjoyed higher incomes and improved employment prospects. As the productive economy, infrastructure and housing are going a rapid and costly modernization to Western standards, the transition to market principles and a risk society, generates winners and losers.

Spis treści

The new East German economy - problems of transition, unification and institutional mismatch, Wendy Carlin; employment, welfare support and income distribution in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the impact of German reunification on the German industrial relations system, Karl Koch; housing situation and housing policy in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the East German family - change and continuity, Mike Dennis; women, work and family in the new Lander - conflicts and experiences, Eva Kolinsky; education transformed? the East German school system since the Wende, Rosalind M.O. Pritchard; political participation of young people in East Germany, Hans Oswald, Christine Schmid; social transformation studies and human rights abuses in East Germany after 1945, Anthony Glees; multiculturalism in the making? non-Germans and civil society in the new Lander, Eva Kolinsky.

O autorze

Chris Flockton, Eva Kolinsky