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Tables of Contents for Societal Impact on Aging
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
vii
Preface
ix
Inventing Pensions: The Origins of the Company-Provided Pension in the United States, 1900-1940
1
44
Roger L. Ransom
Richard Sutch
Samuel H. Williamson
Commentary: Pensions and Poverty: Comments on Declining Pensions
39
6
Nancy Folbre
The Creation of Retirement: Families, Individuals and the Social Security Movement
45
45
Brian Gratton
Commentary: The Supply and Demand for Retirement: Sorting out the Arguments
74
9
Jon R. Moen
Commentary: Family Structure, Family Income, and Incentives to Retire
83
7
Emily S. Andrews
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse: Rhetoric and Reality in the Institutional History of the Aged
90
40
Carole Haber
Commentary: The Elderly and the Almshouses: Some Further Reflections
114
9
Maris A. Vinovskis
Commentary: Symbols of the Old Age Pension Movement: The Poorhouse, the Family, and the ``Childlike'' Elderly
123
7
Michel Dahlin
The State, the Elderly, and the Intergenerational Contract: Toward a New Political Economy of Aging
130
35
Debra Street
Jill Quadagno
Commentary: Intergenerational Equity and Academic Discourse
151
6
Edward D. Berkowitz
Commentary: Elderly Persons and the State: Distribution Across and Within Generations
157
8
Dennis Shea
The Prophecy of Senescence: G. Stanley Hall and the Reconstruction of Old Age in Twentieth-Century America
165
39
Thomas R. Cole
Commentary: What Became of the Prophecy of Senescence: A View from Life-Span Psychology
182
16
Anna G. Maciel
Ursula M. Staudinger
Commentary: Aging and Prophecy: The Uses of G. Stanley Hall's Senescence
198
6
David G. Troyansky
(When) Did the Papacy Become a Gerontocracy?
204
41
W. Andrew Achenbaum
Commentary: Institutional Gerontocracies Structural or Demographic: The Case of the Papacy
232
5
David D. Van Tassel
Commentary on (When) Did the Papacy Become a Gerontocracy
237
8
Roger Ransom
Afterword
245
8
W. Andrew Achenbaum
Index
253