Social Transformation and the Family in Post-Communist Germany - Hardcover

Anglo-German Foundation For The Study Of Industrial Society

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312211007 ISBN 13: 9780312211004

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

In ten studies from an October 1994 workshop in London, British and German academics look at some of the consequences of the abrupt shift to capitalism in the former East Germany, particularly the impact on families. Noting that women's employment and family duties are no longer deemed compatible and that women, single mothers, the unskilled, and blue-collar workers now risk exclusion from the economy while other groups are increasing their income, they examine family policy agendas, changes in income and employment, challenges faced by women, and younger and older people. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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About the Author:

EVA KOLINSKY is Professor of Modern German Studies at Keele University and Director of Keele's Centre for the Study of German Culture and Society. Since the unification of Germany, she extended her established research interest in the emergence of social citizenship and equal opportunities to include the processes of post-communist transformation with special reference to women, the family and minority cultures. Recent publications include: Women in Contemporary Germany; Women in 20th Century Germany; Between Hope and Fear: Everyday Life in Post-Unification East Germany (editor), and Turkish Culture in German Society Today (editor with D.Horrocks). She is co-editor of German Politics (Frank Cass) and of a series on Culture and Society in Germany.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312211007
• ISBN 13: 9780312211004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 237
• Editor: Kolinsky Eva