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Old age and the search for security : an American social history / Carole Haber and Brian Gratton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Interdisciplinary studies in historyPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.Description: xv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0253326915 (alk. paper)
  • 025320836X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.26/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1064.U5 H183 1993
Contents:
Introduction: Historians and the History of Old Age in America -- 1. The Families of the Old -- 2. Wealth and Poverty: The Economic Well-Being of the Aged -- 3. Work and Retirement -- 4. The Threat of the Almshouse -- 5. Advice to the Old -- 6. A New History of Old Age.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HQ1064.U5H183 1994 1 Available 33710000698147

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-228) and index.

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Introduction: Historians and the History of Old Age in America -- 1. The Families of the Old -- 2. Wealth and Poverty: The Economic Well-Being of the Aged -- 3. Work and Retirement -- 4. The Threat of the Almshouse -- 5. Advice to the Old -- 6. A New History of Old Age.