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Coping with a New Reality: Barriers and Possibilities

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  • Beer, Ursula
  • Muller, Ursula

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Unification with the former Federal Republic has made the inhabitants of East Germany feel like foreigners in their own country. Within the space of a few months a fundamentally different social structure--from labor market to pornography industry--was imposed upon the inhabitants of East Germany. Existential uncertainty has consequently become a mass experience. The dialectic of devaluation and revaluation, of strangeness and familiarity, are the central themes that emerged in interviews with employees, personnel managers, and works council at the Sachsensring-Werk in Zwickau. The evidence suggest that men were better placed than women, not in individual but in structural terms, to cope with the new reality. Copyright 1993 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Beer, Ursula & Muller, Ursula, 1993. "Coping with a New Reality: Barriers and Possibilities," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 17(3), pages 281-294, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:17:y:1993:i:3:p:281-94
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