The new East German economy - problems of transition, unification and institutional mismatch, Wendy Carlin; employment, welfare support and income distribution in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the impact of German reunification on the German industrial relations system, Karl Koch; housing situation and housing policy in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the East German family - change and continuity, Mike Dennis; women, work and family in the new Lander - conflicts and experiences, Eva Kolinsky; education transformed? the East German school system since the Wende, Rosalind M.O. Pritchard; political participation of young people in East Germany, Hans Oswald, Christine Schmid; social transformation studies and human rights abuses in East Germany after 1945, Anthony Glees; multiculturalism in the making? non-Germans and civil society in the new Lander, Eva Kolinsky.