W. Andrew Achenbaum

Social security : visions and revisions

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Social Security Comes of Age: 1. Social security: the early years 2. Social security matures, 1940-72 3. The mid-life crisis of American social security 4. Social security gets a new lease on life Part II. Current Social Security Issues in Historical perspective: 5. Retirement under social security 6. Social security and the modern American woman 7. Universal coverage: an either/or proposition? 8. Federal health care programs and social security 9. A vision renewed: individual needs and mutual responsibility Notes Index.

Urban elders : family, work, and welfare among Boston's aged, 1890-1950

How has the post-New Deal Era affected the aged in America? Urban Elders focuses upon the elderly residents in the city of Boston to illustrate a shared experience among Americas elderly community: during the first half of the twentieth-century the American aged left behind the relative anonymity of a family-determined fate and became public clients of the welfare state. Until 1930 most older men enjoyed relatively good access to occupations, remained in the labor force, and retained continuity and stability in their household and family relationships. Grattons engrossing analysis reveals that the labor force activity of older men first sharply declined after the institution of welfare benefits.The discussion presented in Urban Elders addresses the central question that if the welfare system has tended to create the distinct circumstances of the aged, rather than to react to them, what prompted its development. Gratton asserts that the history of old age should be divided into three parts: pre-industrial, industrial, and post-New Deal. By the 1950s, as this book reveals, the common experiences had changed from work or dependence upon the family to retirement and dependence on the state. The new arrangement is precisely what troubles us as a nation; its origins, closely followed in this book, deserve our careful attention. Author note: Brian Gratton is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University.

Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science.

Introduction Two Precursors Keywords OLD AGE BECOMES A PROBLEM WORTH INVESTIGATING SCIENTIFICALLY 1. Surveying the Frontiers of Aging 2. Setting Boundaries for Disciplined Discoveries 3. Establishing Outposts for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging GERONTOLOGY TAKES SHAPE IN THE ERA OF BIG SCIENCE 4. Organizing the Gerontological Society to Promote Interdisciplinary Research Amid Disciplinary and Professional Constriction 5. Risk-taking in the Modern Research University - The Fate of Multidisciplinary Institutes on Aging 6. The Federal Government as Sponsor, Producer, and Consumer of Research on Aging 7. Gerontology in the Service of Americas Aging Veterans Conclusion The Current State of the Field Reconstructing Gerontology

Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience since 1790

Old age in the new land : the American experience since 1790 , Old age in the new land : the American experience since 1790 , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)