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Germany's Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe

by Oliver Nachtwey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781786636348
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 368 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Theory, World / European, and Europe / Germany

How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany

Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the "old" West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university. Not so in today's Federal Republic, where the gears of the so-called "elevator society" have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in postwar German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result. He concludes that although the country has managed to muddle through thus far, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system's stability in the years to come.

Recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing.

Oliver Nachtwey is Associate Professor of Social Structure Analysis at the University of Basel, and a fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. His research interests include labour and industrial sociology, political sociology, the comparative study of capitalism, and social movements.

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