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Someday All This Will Be Yours : A History of Inheritance and Old Age.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (364 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062634
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Someday All This Will Be YoursDDC classification:
  • 346.7305/2
LOC classification:
  • KF771
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Over the Hill -- Part One: Planning for Old Age -- 1. Of Helplessness and Power -- 2. The Work of Promises -- 3. Keeping Them Close -- 4. Things Fall Apart -- Part Two: Death and Lawyers -- 5. A Life Transformed -- 6. Compensations for Care -- 7. Paid Work -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Hartog tells the heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation, in a time before pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes filled this gap. As an explosive economy drew the young away from home, we see how the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Over the Hill -- Part One: Planning for Old Age -- 1. Of Helplessness and Power -- 2. The Work of Promises -- 3. Keeping Them Close -- 4. Things Fall Apart -- Part Two: Death and Lawyers -- 5. A Life Transformed -- 6. Compensations for Care -- 7. Paid Work -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Hartog tells the heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation, in a time before pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes filled this gap. As an explosive economy drew the young away from home, we see how the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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