After the Fall of the Wall : Life Courses in the Transformation of East Germany, Hardcover by Diewald, Martin (EDT); Goedicke, Anne (EDT); Mayer, Karl Ulrich (EDT), ISBN 0804752087, ISBN-13 9780804752084, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Part of the larger research program, the German Life History Study, which initiated in 1979, the 13 chapters presented by Diewald (sociology, U. of Bielefeld, Germany), Goedicke (sociology, U. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and Mayer (sociology, Yale U., US) examine the transformation of East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall through the study of thousands of quantifiable individual life histories. Topics include the institutional transformation of the state, labor market changes, consequences of firm privatization and reorganization, disparities of gender and age, class mobility, family formation, changes in social networks, employment opportunities and earnings, and trends of "flexibilization" in labor markets. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()