Time and poverty in western welfare states
Subtitle: United Germany in perspective
By: Lutz Leisering and Stephan Leibfried ; with contributions by Petra Buhr, Monika Ludwig, and others ; translation by John Veit-Wilson and Lutz Leisering.
Contributors: Leisering, Lutz.; Leibfried, Stephan, 1944-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Poverty -- Germany.; Poor -- Germany.; Public welfare -- Germany.; Marginality, Social -- Germany.; Social service -- Germany.; Germany -- Social conditions.
Other titles: Time, life and poverty
Description: "Professors Leisering and Leibfried explore the relationship between welfare policies and individual life trajectories by way of a time-based (dynamic) analysis of poverty, combining quantitative and qualitative methods, and suggest the need for a radical rethinking of conventional theoretical and policy approaches. The core of this study is the empirical analysis of the life course of claimants of 'Social Assistance' in West and East Germany, although the conclusions are put into a wider context of socio-economic, socio-political and historical analysis and comparative observations are made with other countries, notably the USA."--Jacket.

"Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States will be of interest to upper-level students, researchers and policy-makers in a wide range of social science disciplines, including sociology, economics, social policy, psychology and European studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-358) and indexes.
Translation of: Zeit der Armut, 1995.