Time and poverty in Western welfare states: United Germany in perspective

Abstract

Preface R. Dahrendorf Part I. The Welfare State and the Life Course Passages Through Poverty: 1. Poverty in the welfare state: the life-course approach 2. Life course as politics Part II. Poverty in the Life Course: The Dynamics of Social Decline and Ascent: 3. Objective time: how long do people claim social assistance? 4. Subjective time: how social assistance is perceived and evaluated 5. Living time: poverty careers between exclusion and integration 6. Institutionalised time: does social assistance create dependency? Part III. Poverty and Social Change Debates and Policies: 7. Between denial and dramatisation: images of poverty in postwar Germany 8. Disruption and continuity in life courses: poverty in unified Germany 9. Increasingly dynamic? The impact of social change on social assistance dynamics Part IV. Poverty and Society: Towards a New Welfare State?: 10. Time and poverty: towards a new picture of poverty and social exclusion 11. Paths out of poverty: perspectives on active policy 12. Social inequality in transition 13. Individual lives and the welfare state - recasting the German welfare regime.

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