| Description |
xvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ralf Dahrendorf -- 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 -- 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. Institutional time: does Social Assistance create dependency? -- III. Poverty and social change: debates and policies. 7. Between denial and dramatisation: images of poverty in post-war Germany. 8. Disruption and continuity in life courses: poverty in unified Germany. 9. Increasingly dynamic? The impact of social change on Social Assistance dynamics -- IV. Poverty and society: towards a new welfare state? 10. Time and poverty: towards a new picture of poverty and social exclusion |
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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 |
| Notes |
Translation of: Zeit der Armut, 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-358) and indexes |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Subject |
Marginality, Social -- Germany.
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Poor -- Germany.
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Poverty -- Germany.
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Public welfare -- Germany.
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Social service -- Germany.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054654
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| Author |
Leibfried, Stephan, 1944-
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Leisering, Lutz.
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| LC no. |
98039070 |
| ISBN |
0521590132 |
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