TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alsop,Rachel
TI  - A Reversal of Fortunes?: Women, Work, and Change in East Germany 
SN  - 9781571817716
AV  - HD6150.5 .A47 2000
U1  - 331.4/0943/1 21
PY  - 2000///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Gender Studies and Sexuality, History: 20th Century to Present, Cultural Studies (General)
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785330032
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785330032
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785330032/original
ER  -