Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States

Preface R. Dahrendorf; Part 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; Part 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. Institutionalised time: does social assistance create dependency?; Part III. Poverty and Social Change Debates and Policies: 7. Between denial and dramatisation: images of poverty in postwar Germany; 8. Disruption and continuity in life courses: poverty in unified Germany; 9. Increasingly dynamic? The impact of social change on social assistance dynamics; Part IV. Poverty and Society: Towards a New Welfare State?: 10. Time and poverty: towards a new picture of poverty and social exclusion; 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.