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Retiring Men : Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960

By: (Author) Gregory Wood

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Ksh 16,150.00

Format: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 076185679X

ISBN-13: 9780761856795

Publisher: University Press of America

Imprint: University Press of America

Country of Manufacture: GB

Country of Publication: GB

Publication Date: Jan 18th, 2012

Print length: 274 Pages

Weight: 594 grams

Dimensions (height x width x thickness): 23.60 x 16.00 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Society & culture: general

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This book explores how aging men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity—in the midst of increasing employer demands for the speed and stamina of youth in workplaces and the expansion of mandatory retirement policies in the age of Social Security.

As life spans expanded dramatically in the United States after 1900, and employers increasingly demanded the speed and stamina of youth in the workplace, men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity. Longer life threatened manhood as men confronted age discrimination at work, mandatory retirement, and fixed incomes as recipients of Social Security and workplace pensions. They struggled to somehow sustain manliness in retirement, a new phase of life supposedly defined by the absence of labor. Ironically, retiring men pursued ways to stay “productive”: retirees created new daily routines of golf and shuffleboard games, tinkered with tools in garages, attended social club meetings, armed themselves for hunting and fishing excursions, and threw themselves into yard work. Others looked for new jobs or business ventures. Only unending activity could help to ensure that the “golden years” would be good years for older men of the twentieth century.


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