Author : Rachel Alsop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Book Synopsis The Effects of German Unification on Female Wage Labour in Eastern Germany by : Rachel Alsop
Download or read book The Effects of German Unification on Female Wage Labour in Eastern Germany written by Rachel Alsop and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although women made up almost half of the workforce in the GDR it was women who bore the brunt of unemployment during the period of economic crisis that followed the collapse of state socialism. It is the objective of this thesis to study in further detail continuity and change in women's relationship to the labour market during the two periods of economic and political restructuring in east German history - the transition to state socialism after the Second World War and the transition to a liberal democratic, market-economic system after the Wende ( ' Turning Point') in 1989. This study of female employment in eastern Germany makes a theoretical contribution not only to the analysis of gender and the labour market, but also to wider debates within contemporary feminist thought as well as to the study of post-communist societies. This thesis looks in particular at the conditions under which east German women entered and left the labour market during the two periods of restructuring, questioning especially the applicability of the reserve army of labour thesis to female employment. This study also challenges the current shift in feminist thought from the analysis of 'between- gender' to the study of 'in-gender' differences, and from structural to cultural analyses of gender. In addition, this thesis, by focusing on the particular experiences of female labour in eastern Germany, begins to break down our perception of post-communist states as an undifferentiated mass and starts to explore the plurality and heterogeneity of post-communism.