Retiring Men: Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960

by Gregory Wood

This book explores how aging men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs--the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity--in the midst of increasing employer demands for the speed and stamina of youth in workplaces and the expansion of mandatory retirement policies in the age of Social Security.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076185679X
• ISBN13: 9780761856795
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"