Normal view ISBD view

Old age and the search for security :

Haber, Carole, 1951-

Old age and the search for security : an American social history / Carole Haber and Brian Gratton. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, �1993. - 1 online resource (xv, 230 pages) : illustrations. - Interdisciplinary studies in history . - Interdisciplinary studies in history. .

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

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

Use copy

Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

ISBN: 0585207704 9780585207704

LCCN:

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Old age--History.--United States
Older people--Economic conditions.--United States
Older people--Social conditions.--United States
Social security--United States.
Vieillesse--Histoire.--�Etats-Unis
Personnes �ag�ees--Conditions �economiques.--�Etats-Unis
Personnes �ag�ees--Conditions sociales.--�Etats-Unis
S�ecurit�e sociale--�Etats-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Aging.
Old age.
Older people--Economic conditions.
Older people--Social conditions.
Social security.
Aging--history.
Aged--sociology.
Social Security--history.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1064.U5 / H183 1993eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.26/0973