Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford

Browse All Books
A Reversal of Fortunes?: Women, Work, and Change in East Germany

View Table of Contents


Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

A Reversal of Fortunes?

Women, Work, and Change in East Germany

Rachel Alsop

176 pages, 10 tables, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-57181-965-9 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (May 2000)

ISBN  978-1-57181-771-6 $29.95/£23.95 / Pb / Published (May 2000)

eISBN 978-1-78533-003-2 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781571819659


View CartYour country: - edit Buy the eBook from these vendorsRequest a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format)Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Description

German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching effects on them and their families' economic situation. Rachel Alsop critically examines the processes behind women's changing relationship to the labor market in eastern Germany following the collapse of state socialism and the transition to a market economy. By the 1980s women made up virtually half of the East German work force. The collapse of the GDR transformed the field of work, drastically diminishing the general demand for labor. Yet while economic and political restructuring reduced the volume of both male and female employment, it was women who bore the brunt of unemployment. In the immediate transitional period a re-masculinization of the workforce was evident, with women constituting the large part of the unemployed.

Using an extensive range of both quantitative and qualitative data, the author explores the gender dynamics of the social, economic, and political restructuring of eastern Germany, thereby producing an important new context in which to examine contemporary debates on gender and work.

Rachel Alsop is Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Hull.

Subject: Gender Studies and SexualityHistory: 20th Century to PresentCultural Studies (General)
Area: Germany


Contents

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend A Reversal of Fortunes? Women, Work, and Change in East Germany for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $135.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.