Approaching retirement : : Social divisions, welfare and exclusion / / Kirk Mann.
We are all approaching retirement but what should we expect? For some, it is a happy prospect. Others approach retirement knowing they face hardship and social exclusion. Amid alarming predictions of a 'demographic time bomb', governments and the private pensions industry urge everyone to...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms and glossary of terms
- Introduction
- Social divisions, exclusion and retirement
- Two versions of political economy: ease and plenty or immiseration and crisis?
- Consumption, consumers and choice
- Post-work and post-structuralism: first past the post?
- Risk and post-traditional welfare
- Looking (or put out) for greener grass? Some comparative measures of ‘success’
- Prophets, profits and uncertain conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index