Approaching Retirement: Social Divisions, Welfare and Exclusion

Kirk Mann

doi:10.46692/9781847429568

Using the idea of the social division of welfare as a template, this book assesses different approaches to retirement pensions policy, highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses. An invaluable resource for social science students and for those who teach them. Economists and pension practitioners will also find food for thought here.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

List of figures and tables
pp iv-iv

Acknowledgements
pp v-vi

Acronyms and glossary of terms
pp vii-xii

Introduction
pp 1-16

one - Social divisions, exclusion and retirement
pp 17-48

two - Two versions of political economy: ease and plenty or immiseration andcrisis?
pp 49-78

three - Consumption, consumers and choice
pp 79-110

four - Post-work and post-structuralism: first past the post?
pp 111-142

five - Risk and post-traditional welfare
pp 143-172

six - Looking (or put out) for greener grass? Some comparative measures of‘success’
pp 173-206

seven - Prophets, profits and uncertain conclusions
pp 207-224

Bibliography
pp 225-254

Index
pp 255-269

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