Beck, VanessaWagener, DebbieGrix, Jonathan2008-06-272008-06-272005-03Beck, V., Wagener, D., & Grix, J. (2005). Resilience and unemployment: A case study of East German women. German Politics, 14(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/096440005001208300964-400810.1080/09644000500120830http://hdl.handle.net/10034/30582This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in [German Politics]. [Beck, V., Wagener, D., & Grix, J. (2005). Resilience and unemployment: A case study of East German women. German Politics, 14(1), 1-13.]. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.This article discusses unemployment in the former East Germany and the impact that exceptionally high unemployment in the new German states has had on East German women since reunification. It reflects, in particular, on the potential influence of their experience of life in the GDR in developing coping strategies to deal with the effects of unemployment, an ongoing resistance to unemployment and, most significantly, to a male-breadwinner ethos.enhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/unemploymentwomenEast GermanyArticle1743-8993German Politics