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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Gregory Wood

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Wood, Wood Gregory
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9780761856795
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5679-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general