The Citizen's Wage : : The State and the Elderly in Canada, 1900–1951 / / James G. Snell.
Although we inevitably grow old, the social, cultural, and economic characteristics associated with aging are neither natural nor inevitable. James Snell brings a historian’s perspective to the problems of aging and the discourse that surrounds it, a discourse that affects both public policy and the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Daily Lives
- 2. Institutionalizing the Dependent Elderly: The First Old Age Homes
- 3. The Family and Intergenerational Support
- 4. Property and the Culture of Entitlement
- 5. Agency among Old Age Pensioners
- 6. Organizing Politically: The First Grey Lobby
- 7. Shifting Policies of Old Age Pensions
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- A Note on Sources
- Index