{"product_id":"after-the-fall-of-the-wall-9780804752084","title":"After the Fall of the Wall","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough careful examination of the lives of East Germans in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book details how a very sudden and very radical system change alters the interweaving of individual agency with institutions and social structures in shaping life-course trajectories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the first, most comprehensive assessments in the English language of how two different systems and institutions have shaped the lives of East Germans and how East Germans have dealt with the transition to the new Federal Republic of Germany... Their findings should finally lay to rest the notion of the unmotivated East German and suggest rather the dominant role of massive economic restructuring and work-related position in understanding how East Germans have fared through transition.\"—\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At the beginning of the 1990s many people thought that the economic problems of East Germany would soon be a thing of the past, that Germany would quickly be unified in economic terms. It turned out that the process of economic integration has been much more difficult than expected. This book analyzes the unusual turbulences and unexpected continuities in the transformation of life courses under conditions of sudden system change. It will be a milestone in life course research.\"—Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAfter the Fall of the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e provides a masterful account of how institutional transformation has affected the life chances of the citizens of the former East Germany...The contributions in this volume document, with impressive detail, the extent of disruption in the East German economy after reunification.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  @toc4:Contributors\txxx  List of Figures and Tables\txxx  Preface\txxx  @toc2:chapter one  After the Fall of the Wall. Living Through the Post-Socialist   Transformation in East Germany\txxx  @tocca:Karl Ulrich Mayer  @toc2:chapter two  Society of Departure: The German Democratic Republic\txxx  @tocca:Karl Ulrich Mayer  @toc2:chapter three  A \"Ready-Made State\": The Mode of Institutional Transition in   East Germany After 1989\txxx  @tocca:Anne Goedicke  @toc2:chapter four  Old Assets--New Liabilities? How Did Individual Characteristics   Contribute to Labor Market Success or Failure After 1989\txxx  @tocca:Martin Diewald, Heike Solga, Anne Goedicke  @toc2:chapter five  Firms and Fortune. The Consequences of Privatization and   Reorganization\txxx  @tocca:Anne Goedicke  @toc2:chapter six  Lost in Transformation? Disparities of Gender and Age\txxx  @tocca:Heike Trappe  @toc2:chapter seven  The Rise of Meritocracy? Class Mobility in East Germany Before   and After 1989\txxx  @tocca:Heike Solga  @toc2:chapter eight  Family Formation in Times of Abrupt Social and Economic Change  \txxx  @tocca:Johannes Huinink, Michaela Kreyenfeld  @toc2:chapter nine  Community Lost or Freedom Gained? Changes of Social Networks   After 1989\txxx  @tocca:Martin Diewald, Jorg Ludicke  @toc2:chapter ten  Spirals of Success and Failure? The Interplay of Control Beliefs   and Working Lives in the Transition from Planned to Market   Economy\txxx  @tocca:Martin Diewald  @toc2:chapter eleven  Comparing Paths of Transition. Employment Opportunities and   Earnings in East Germany and Poland During the First Ten Years   of the Transformation Process\txxx  @tocca:Martin Diewald, Bogdan Mach  @toc2:chapter twelve  The Quest for a Double Transformation. Trends of Flexibilization   in the Labor Markets of East and West Germany\txxx  @tocca:Martin Diewald  @toc2:chapter thirteen  Unusual Turbulences--Unexpected Continuities. Transformation   Life Courses in Retrospective\txxx  @tocca:Karl Ulrich Mayer, Martin Diewald, Anne Goedicke  @toc4:Appendix: The East German Life History Study\txxx  Notes\txxx  References\txxx  Index\txxx","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405562749271,"sku":"9780804752084","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804752084.jpg?v=1730492843","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/after-the-fall-of-the-wall-9780804752084","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}