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Societal impact on aging : historical perspectives
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- Creator
- K. Warner Schaie, W. Andrew Achenbaum, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Springer Publishing Co., 1993
- Physical Details
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- xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826182005, 0826182003
- OCLC
- ocm28018330
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Inventing Pensions: The Origins of the Company-Provided Pension in the United States, 1900-1940 / Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch and Samuel H. Williamson -- Commentary: Pensions and Poverty: Comments on Declining Pensions / Nancy Folbre -- 2. The Creation of Retirement: Families, Individuals and the Social Security Movement / Brian Gratton -- Commentary: The Supply and Demand for Retirement: Sorting out the Arguments / Jon R. Moen -- Commentary: Family Structure, Family Income, and Incentives to Retire / Emily S. Andrews -- 3. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse: Rhetoric and Reality in the Institutional History of the Aged / Carole Haber -- Commentary: The Elderly and the Almshouses: Some Further Reflections / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Commentary: Symbols of the Old Age Pension Movement: The Poorhouse, the Family, and the "Childlike" Elderly / Michel Dahlin -- 4. The State, the Elderly, and the Intergenerational Contract: Toward a New Political Economy of Aging / Debra Street and Jill Quadagno -- Commentary: Intergenerational Equity and Academic Discourse / Edward D. Berkowitz -- Commentary: Elderly Persons and the State: Distribution Across and Within Generations / Dennis Shea -- 5. The Prophecy of Senescence: G. Stanley Hall and the Reconstruction of Old Age in Twentieth-Century America / Thomas R. Cole -- Commentary: What Became of the Prophecy of Senescence: A View from Life-Span Psychology / Anna G. Maciel and Ursula M. Staudinger -- Commentary: Aging and Prophecy: The Uses of G. Stanley Hall's Senescence / David G. Troyansky -- 6. (When) Did the Papacy Become a Gerontocracy? / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- Commentary: Institutional Gerontocracies Structural or Demographic: The Case of the Papacy / David D. Van Tassel -- Commentary on (When) Did the Papacy Become a Gerontocracy / Roger Ransom -- Afterword / W. Andrew Achenbaum