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The authors examine identity strategies of middle-class couples who come under pressure of over-indebtedness. Based on biographical interviews collected in a qualitative panel study in three waves, they explore the question of how identity is worked on in the couple and how identity changes when social decline threatens. The theory-generating analysis brings out patterns of coping with over-indebtedness and self-placement described along the notions of'continuity','modification'and'moratorium'. Similarly, they explore how lifeworlds are constructed in and with over-indebtedness as a couple.This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

​Die Autor_innen untersuchen Identitätsstrategien von Paaren aus der Mittelschicht, die unter Überschuldungsdruck geraten. Sie gehen aufgrund biografischer Interviews, die in einer qualitativen Paneluntersuchung in drei Wellen erhoben wurden, der Frage nach, wie im Paar an der Identität gearbeitet wird und wie sich Identität verändert, wenn sozialer Abstieg droht. Die theoriegenerierende Analyse bringt Muster des Umgangs mit Überschuldung und der Selbstplatzierung hervor, die entlang der Begriffe ‚Kontinuität‘, ‚Modifikation‘ und ‚Moratorium‘ beschrieben werden. Ebenso gehen sie der Frage nach, wie die Lebenswelt in und mit Überschuldung als Paar konstruiert wird.

Everywhere one travels in the world, people are excited about the new high technology production system. But the global villagers are also perplexed about the new social service needs that seem to accompany the high-tech economy: child care needs for working couples, elder care facilities for infirm senior citizens, burgeoning health care costs accompanying high-tech medicine, nursery school and college tuition costs, and more. There has been a global response to these social service needs, and this book will present and analyse that response. For, a new phenomenon may be emerging, as contradictory as it may appear, a kind of'caring capitalism'may arise, worldwide. This book explores the various attempts around the globe to create a system of'caring capitalism'and why nations have been pressured by the'new middle class'to do so.