Introduction : manhood and its discontents -- Growing old at work during the early twentieth century -- Old age poverty, 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...

This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...

The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris...