Golden Years: How Americans Invented And Reinvented Old Age James Chappel Basic Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Surprising History Of Old Age In Modern America Showing How We Created Unprecedented Security For Some And Painful Uncertainty Otherson Farms Factories Americans Once Had Little Choice But To Work Until Death As Nation Prospered A New Idea Was Born: Right Dignified Secure That Project Has Benefited Millions It Remains Incomplete-And Today It\ S Under Siege Golden Years Historian James Chappel Shows First Emerged Distinct Stage Life Evolved Over Last Century Shaped By Politicians\ Choices Activists\ Demands Medical Advancements Cultural Models From Utopian Novels Girls Only After World War Ii Did Government Subsidies Employer Pensions Allow People Retire En Masse Just One Generation Later This Model Crumbled Older Streamed Back Into Workforce Free-Market Policymakers Pushed Burdens Aging Onto Their Families Now Confront An Mired Contradictions: Ever Longer Lifespans Spiraling Health-Care Costs 401(K)S Economic Precarity Opportunity Often Disastrous Instability Population Grows Urges Us Look Past Better Understand Today-And Could Be Tomorrow Σελίδες: 368 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0128 Διαστάσεις: 16X16Cm