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One of the German-speaking worldâs leading young sociologists lays out modern Germanyâs 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 âoldâ 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 todayâs Federal Republic, however, where the gears of the so-called âelevator societyâ 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 systemâs stability in the years to come.
Nachtwey's book was recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundationâs 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing.
Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the âoldâ 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 todayâs Federal Republic, however, where the gears of the so-called âelevator societyâ 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 systemâs stability in the years to come.
Nachtwey's book was recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundationâs 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing.
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One of the German-speaking worldâs leading young sociologists lays out modern Germanyâs 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 âoldâ 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 todayâs Federal Republic, however, where the gears of the so-called âelevator societyâ 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 systemâs stability in the years to come.
Nachtwey's book was recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundationâs 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing.
Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the âoldâ 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 todayâs Federal Republic, however, where the gears of the so-called âelevator societyâ 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 systemâs stability in the years to come.
Nachtwey's book was recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundationâs 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing.