The unification of Germany extended the economic and political system of the West to the East. This led to a "problematic normalization" as East Germans adjusted to uncertainties in employment, education, family life and immigration. This work considers the problems of the socialist legacy.
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'This book is a timely, fascinating and thought provoking review of the new eastern German states some ten years after unification ... strongly recommended for all who take an interest in the process of transition generally and eastern German adjustment in particular.' - Political Studies
List of Tables and Figures vii List of Contributors viii The New Germany in the East: An Introduction 1(26) Chris Flockton Eva Kolinsky Rosalind Pritchard Part I The New Germany in Europe Political Transition, Social Transformation and the Welfare Agenda 27(21) Steen Mangen Towards a New Deal? Recasting Social Policy in Germany and Europe 48(13) Ilona Ostner Policy Agendas and the Economy in Germany and Europe 61(26) Chris Flockton Part II Ten Years On: The New Germany since Unification Perceptions of GDR Society and its Transformation: East German Identity Ten Years after Unity 87(19) Mike Dennis Employment, Gender and the Dual Transformation in Germany 106(17) Hildegard Maria Nickel Pre-school Education and Childcare in East Germany: Transformation and New Challenges 123(25) Rosalind Pritchard Unexpected Newcomers: Asylum Seekers and other non-Germans in the New Lander 148(17) Eva Kolinsky Legacies of Exclusion: The Memory of Terror and the Creation of Civic Values in the New Bundeslander 165(28) Anthony Glees Part III Social Experiences and Attitude Change Mother-Child Interactions at the Passage from Childhood to Youth: A Comparison of East and West German Families 193(16) Beate Schuster Parenting in Times of Social Transformation 209(12) Harald Uhlendorff Investigating Change in the Way Children Deal with Time 221(17) Dieter Kirchhofer Managing Unemployment: Experiences and Strategies of Women in the New Bundeslander 238(14) Vanessa Beck Violence against Women: Sexual Offences and Victim Support in Saxony-Anhalt 252(14) Ingrid Holzler Recasting Civil Society in East Germany 266(17) Jonathan Grix Index 283
Chris Flockton, Eva Kolinsky, Rosalind Pritchard
