Title: Aging and the Welfare State Crisis (The University of Delaware Press Series, the Family in Interdisciplinary Perspective)
Description: "This book addresses the critical issues of demographic aging and its implications for the Welfare State through an in-depth and well-documented analysis of the French case during the period 1880-1990. The aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics behind the making of old-age policies in France, and not limited only to reconstituting the decision-making process behind specific public measures.".

"This book brings an innovative conceptual framework of analysis that can be transferred to other areas of social politics or public policies at large."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Age and employment, Retirement, Government policy, Older people, History, Old age pensions, French literature, history and criticism, France, history, 20th century