A Reversal of Fortunes? : : Women, Work, and Change in East Germany /

A Reversal of Fortunes? : : Women, Work, and Change in East Germany / / Rachel Alsop.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Alsop, Rachel,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Rhetoric and Reality:Women’s Employment in the GDR
  • 3. The Unification Process
  • 4. Changing States: Redefining Women,Work and Welfare
  • 5. The ‘Defeminisation’ of Waged Labour
  • 6. Linking the Local and the Global:Women in the Textile and Clothing Industry
  • 7. Hearing Voices:Women’s Responses to Change
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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