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Additional authors

1. Fernbach, David
2. Balhorn, Loren

Description

1. 247 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

1. "An excellent study of how neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany. 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, concluding that although the country has managed to muddle through the Eurocrisis largely unscathed thus far, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system's stability in the years to come"--

Uniform title

1. Abstiegsgesellschaft. English

Alternative title

1. Abstiegsgesellschaft.

Subject

1. Capitalism
2. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
3. Social change
4. HISTORY / Europe / Germany
5. Social mobility
6. Social conflict

Contents

1. Introduction -- Social Modernity -- Capitalism (Almost) without Growth -- Regressive Modernization -- Downward Mobility -- Revolt -- Afterword : The Crumbling Pillars of Political Stability.

Call number

1. JFD 19-2612

Note

1. Translated from the German.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Nachtwey, Oliver, author.

Title

1. Germany's hidden crisis : social decline in the heart of Europe / Oliver Nachtwey ; translated by David Fernbach and Loren Balhorn.

Publisher

1. London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local note

1. AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF BASEL. TRANS. FROM GERMAN.

Added author

1. Fernbach, David, translator.
2. Balhorn, Loren, translator.

LCCN

1. 2018028796

ISBN

1. 9781786636348 paperback
2. 1786636344 paperback
3. 9781786637147 hardcover
4. 1786637146 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFD 19-2612