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Retiring Men - Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960 (Hardcover)
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Retiring Men - Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960 (Hardcover)
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As life spans expanded dramatically in the United States after
1900, and employers increasingly demanded the speed and stamina of
youth in the workplace, men struggled to sustain identities as
workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs-the core ideals of
twentieth-century masculinity. Longer life threatened manhood as
men confronted age discrimination at work, mandatory retirement,
and fixed incomes as recipients of Social Security and workplace
pensions. They struggled to somehow sustain manliness in
retirement, a new phase of life supposedly defined by the absence
of labor. Ironically, retiring men pursued ways to stay
"productive": retirees created new daily routines of golf and
shuffleboard games, tinkered with tools in garages, attended social
club meetings, armed themselves for hunting and fishing excursions,
and threw themselves into yard work. Others looked for new jobs or
business ventures. Only unending activity could help to ensure that
the "golden years" would be good years for older men of the
twentieth century.
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