Disenchantment with Market Economics : East Germans and Western Capitalism (European Anthropology in Translation) (Library Binding)

Presents the life-worlds and personal experiences of workers and employees in three enterprises in East Berlin at the moment of political and economic upheaval. This book sets out in 1989 at the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, witnessing the confrontations with the market economy and examining the reinterpretations of the socialist past.