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Social developments, 1949-1989 - Coggle Diagram
Social developments, 1949-1989
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Standards of living
economic miracle
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latest products of German technology: fridges, food processors, cars and campavans, TVs, and computers by the 1980s
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Workers and peasants
benefited from shorter working hours, and new streamlined system of trade unions working in cooperation with management
workers benefited from cheap labour that arrived from East Germany or Gastarbeiter: placed most native West Germans in 'upper working' or middle class
1983: 16.4% of West Germans work in service industry, forestry and agriuclture: 5.9%
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Education
1950: 108,000 students in West Germany, by 1989 Germany's 49 univeristies were catering for over half a million students
Willy Brandt: huge increase in eduaction spending (5x), extension of tax free allowance for children to help poorer families, abolition of fees for higher education
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Modern culture
until public spending cuts of 1970s, 1% of state and lander budgets went towards supporting the arts
Federal Republic had 300 theatres that were heavily subsidised, allowing diversity and experimentation