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Retirement, understood in terms of a period of pensioned rest or leisure at the end of working life, is a relatively recent development. It only became a widespread stage in life following the expansion of social security and pensions in the mid-twentieth century. The status of retirement has become more ambiguous in more recent decades as concerns about population aging and longevity have prompted policy debate about the social organization of work and retirement in later life.
Introduction
With population aging and increased longevity, the social organization of work and retirement is now the site of continuing political negotiation and transformation. Historically, the passage from work to retirement has played an important role in shaping the experience of aging, serving as the boundary point for entry into old age. For much of the twentieth century, the conventional definition of old age as...
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Biggs, S., McGann, M.T. (2015). Retirement and Social Policy. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_193-1
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