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Age and Structural Lag: Society's Failure to Provide Meaningful Opportunities in Work, Family, and Leisure

Matilda White Riley (Editor), Robert L. Kahn (Editor), Anne Foner (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-471-01678-6
Hardcover
304 pages
September 1994
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Partial table of contents:

THE DILEMMA OF STRUCTURAL LAG.

Structural Lag: Past and Future (M. Riley & J. Riley).

Opportunities, Aspirations, and Goodness of Fit (R. Kahn).

DIRECTIONS OF CHANGE.

Social Structure and Age-Based Careers (J. Henretta).

Work and Retirement: A Comparative Perspective (M. Kohli).

Family Change and Historical Change: An Uneasy Relationship (T.Hareven).

Old Age and Age Integration: An Anthropological Perspective (J.Keith).

CURRENT INTERVENTIONS: OLDER WORKERS.

Realizing the Potential: Some Examples (W. McNaught).

Changing Policy Signals (R. Burkhauser & J. Quinn).

Endnote: The Reach of an Idea (A. Foner).

Indexes.
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