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  • Working Couples Caring for Children and Aging Parents

    Effects on Work and Well-Being

    Series series Applied Psychology Series
    As the baby boomer generation approaches midlife, many dual-earner couples are struggling with issues of simultaneously caring for children while tending to aging parents. This timely book uncovers the circumstances faced by these workers, known as the “sandwiched generation”, and identifies what they need in order to fulfill their work and family responsibilities. Authors Margaret B. Neal and ... Leer más

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    Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a twenty-first-century fountain of youth. In Eternity Soup, ... Leer más

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  • You're Old, I'm Old . . . Get Used to It!

    Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old Is Great

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  • Union Power

    Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara

    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region’s labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly ... Leer más

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  • Misinformed About Food

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  • Paid Work Beyond Pension Age

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    Edición de Simone Scherger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Delaying Retirement

    Progress and Challenges of Active Ageing in Europe, the United States and Japan

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour. Focusing on eleven European countries, the United States and Japan, it brings together leading international experts to analyze recent changes in pension systems. Their findings demonstrate that ... Leer más

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  • The Individual and the Welfare State

    Life Histories in Europe

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situation at age 50+ reflects our own decisions as well as many environmental factors, especially interventions by the welfare state. This book explores the richness of 28,000 life histories in thirteen European countries, collected as part of the Survey of ... Leer más

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  • Challenges of Aging

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    Nora Scruggs McCall was a deeply religious woman, who never lost her faith that God was always in control, and that everything would work out, as it should. Even as her dementia progressed, she continued working as a volunteer grandmother. She also continued attending church services at Mount Calvary Baptist Church every weeknight and on Sundays. ----As Nora goes into decline, the task of taking ... Leer más

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  • Reinventing Work in Europe

    Value, Generations and Labour

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. Taking as its basis a number of international surveys and interviews conducted in Europe, the authors consider the significance of work for Europeans today.Over the years the meaning of work has changed. It has become more highly diversified, and it is today invested with high expectations that conflict with ... Leer más

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