Germany's hidden crisis : social decline in the heart of Europe
Nachtwey, Oliver2018
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One of the German-speaking world's leading young sociologists lays out modern Germany's social and political crisis and its implications for the future of the European hegemon. Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the 'old' West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their VWs to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university. Not so in today's Federal Republic, however, 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 post-war German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result.
Main title:
Germany's hidden crisis : social decline in the heart of Europe / Oliver Nachtwey ; translated by David Fernbach.
Author:
Nachtwey, Oliver, authorFernbach, David, translator
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2018.
Collation:
208 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781786636348 (pbk)
Dewey class:
320.943
Language:
EnglishGerman
Subject:
BRN:
2747144