Retiring men : manhood, labor, and growing old in America, 1900-1960 /

Retiring men : manhood, labor, and growing old in America, 1900-1960 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Wood, Gregory.
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2012.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Men -- Employment -- United States -- History.
Age and employment -- United States -- History.
Retirement -- United States -- History.
Age and employment.
Men -- Employment.
Retirement.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11132366
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ISBN:9780761856801
0761856803
076185679X
9780761856795
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Wood, Gregory. Retiring men. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2012 076185679X

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