Approaching retirement
Subtitle: social divisions, welfare, and exclusion
By: Kirk Mann.
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bristol, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Retirement -- Great Britain.; Old age pensions -- Great Britain.; Older people -- Government policy -- Great Britain.; Social status -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of figures and tables iv; title: Acknowledgements v; title: Acronyms and glossary of terms vii; title: Introduction I; title: one Social divisions, exclusion and retirement 17; title: two Two versions of political economy: ease and plenty or 49; title: immiseration and crisis?; title: three Consumption, consumers and choice 79; title: four Post-work and post-structuralism: first past the post? I I I; title: five Risk and post-traditional welfare 143; title: six Looking (or put out) for greener grass? Some comparative 173; title: measures of'success'; title: seven Prophets, profits and uncertain conclusions 207; title: Bibliography 225; title: Index 255.