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A fresh map of life : the emergence of the Third Age / Peter Laslett with a new preface by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. edDescription: xiii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780674323278
  • 0674323270
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.260941 LAS
LOC classification:
  • HQ1064.G7 L37 1991
Contents:
I.A new division of the life course -- II.How long can anyone go on living? -- III.The age of Britain as a country -- IV.The age of the present British population -- V.THe rectangular survival curve and the secular shift in ageing -- VI.The emergence of the third age -- VII.Hostile and demeaning descriptions of the elderly -- VIII.The insufficiency of the family group - in the past and in the present -- IX.Retirement and its social history: kin and collectivity in support of the old -- X.The general theory of the third age -- XI.The obloescence of the education system; and the university of the third age -- XI.The obsolescence of the educational system: and the University of the Third Age -- XII.Employment and the frontier between the second age and the third -- XIII.The responsibilities of older British people.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 305.260941 LAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219722
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 305.260941 LAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219721

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-209) and index.

I.A new division of the life course -- II.How long can anyone go on living? -- III.The age of Britain as a country -- IV.The age of the present British population -- V.THe rectangular survival curve and the secular shift in ageing -- VI.The emergence of the third age -- VII.Hostile and demeaning descriptions of the elderly -- VIII.The insufficiency of the family group - in the past and in the present -- IX.Retirement and its social history: kin and collectivity in support of the old -- X.The general theory of the third age -- XI.The obloescence of the education system; and the university of the third age -- XI.The obsolescence of the educational system: and the University of the Third Age -- XII.Employment and the frontier between the second age and the third -- XIII.The responsibilities of older British people.

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