Leslie Hannah

Inventing Retirement

The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1986 book examines why old-age saving became rooted in the employment contract.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121552
• ISBN-10: 0521121558
• Artikelnr.: 27065072

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures
Preface
Part I. The Rise of Pensioning: 1. Savings, work and old age in Victorian Britain
2. Rival pioneers of collectivism: pensions, the state and employers (1899-1927)
3. The insurance challenge (1927-56)
4. The state: partner or competitor? (1940-78)
5. Competition and professionalisation: the maturing of the pension market (1956-79)
Part II. The Shaping of the Modern Pensions Institution: 6. Accident and design in the evolution of pensions
7. Pensions in peril? security, solvency and vesting
8. Designing the benefit structure
9. Retirement: age discrimination or the fruits of prosperity?
Epilogue
Statistical appendix
A note on sources
Notes
Index.