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Golden Years

- How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
Af: James Chappel Engelsk Hardback

Golden Years

- How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
Af: James Chappel Engelsk Hardback
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An “essential” (The New Republic) account of the history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others

On farms and in factories, Americans once had little choice but to work until death. As the nation prospered, a new idea was born: the right to a dignified and secure old age. That project has benefited millions, but it remains incomplete—and today it’s under siege. 
  
In Golden Years, historian James Chappel shows how old age first emerged as a distinct stage of life and how it evolved over the last century, shaped by politicians’ choices, activists’ demands, medical advancements, and cultural models from utopian novels to The Golden Girls. Only after World War II did government subsidies and employer pensions allow people to retire en masse. Just one generation later, this model crumbled. Older people streamed back into the workforce, and free-market policymakers pushed the burdens of aging back onto older Americans and their families. We now confront an old age mired in contradictions: ever longer lifespans and spiraling health-care costs, 401(k)s and economic precarity, unprecedented opportunity and often disastrous instability.   
  
As the population of older Americans grows, Golden Years urges us to look to the past to better understand old age today—and how it could be better tomorrow.
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An “essential” (The New Republic) account of the history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others

On farms and in factories, Americans once had little choice but to work until death. As the nation prospered, a new idea was born: the right to a dignified and secure old age. That project has benefited millions, but it remains incomplete—and today it’s under siege. 
  
In Golden Years, historian James Chappel shows how old age first emerged as a distinct stage of life and how it evolved over the last century, shaped by politicians’ choices, activists’ demands, medical advancements, and cultural models from utopian novels to The Golden Girls. Only after World War II did government subsidies and employer pensions allow people to retire en masse. Just one generation later, this model crumbled. Older people streamed back into the workforce, and free-market policymakers pushed the burdens of aging back onto older Americans and their families. We now confront an old age mired in contradictions: ever longer lifespans and spiraling health-care costs, 401(k)s and economic precarity, unprecedented opportunity and often disastrous instability.   
  
As the population of older Americans grows, Golden Years urges us to look to the past to better understand old age today—and how it could be better tomorrow.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781541619524
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1541619528
Kategori: Aldersgrupper: ældre
Udg. Dato: 19 dec 2024
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 161mm
Forlag: Basic Books
Oplagsdato: 19 dec 2024
Forfatter(e): James Chappel
Forfatter(e) James Chappel

Kategori Aldersgrupper: ældre

ISBN-13 9781541619524

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 34mm

Bredde 242mm

Højde 161mm

Udg. Dato 19 dec 2024

Oplagsdato 19 dec 2024

Forlag Basic Books

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