Gregory Wood

Retiring Men

Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how aging men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs-the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity-in the midst of increasing employer demands for the speed and stamina of youth in workplaces and the expansion of mandatory retirement policies in the age of Social Security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780761856795
• ISBN-10: 076185679X
• Artikelnr.: 38601239

Autorenporträt

Gregory Wood is assistant professor of history at Frostburg State University. His articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of Social History, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Labor History, Pennsylvania History, Essays in Economic & Business History, Michigan Historical Review, Labour History (Australia), and The Jim Crow Encyclopedia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Manhood and Its Discontents
Chapter 1 - Growing Old at Work during the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 2 - Old Age Poverty, Pension Politics, and Gender during the 1920s
Chapter 3 - Older Men and the Boundaries of Manhood during the 1930s
Chapter 4 - Postwar Manhood and the Shock of Retirement
Chapter 5 - Work, Play, and Gender: The Making of Retirement Culture
Beyond the Masculinity of Youth?
Bibliography