Title Retiring men : manhood, labor, and growing old in America, 1900-1960 / Gregory Wood.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : manhood and its discontents -- Growing old at work during the early twentieth century -- Old age proverty, pension politics, and gender during the 1920s -- Older men and the boundaries of manhood during the 1930s -- Postwar manhood and the shock of retirement -- Work, play, and gender : the making of retirement culture -- Conclusion : beyond the masculinity of youth?
Summary	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.
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Subject	Men -- Employment -- United States -- History.
	Men -- Employment.
	United States.
	History.
	Age and employment -- United States -- History.
	Age and employment.
	Retirement -- United States -- History.
	Retirement.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Men.
Other Form:	Print version: Wood, Gregory. Retiring men. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2012 076185679X (DLC) 2011935886 (OCoLC)775413388
ISBN	9780761856801 (electronic book)
	0761856803 (electronic book)
	076185679X
	9780761856795