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Entitlement and complaint : ending careers and reviewing lives in post-Revolutionary France /

"Entitlement and Complaint explores the early history of the right to retirement and the shaping of the modern life course, applying cutting-edge insights from social, cultural, and political history as well as gerontology to an extraordinarily rich collection of retirement dossiers from the po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Troyansky, David G. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Pensions > Government policy > France > History.
Retirees > France > History.
Social security > France > History.
Public welfare > France > History.
France > History > 1789-1900.
Sécurité sociale > France > Histoire.
Aide sociale > France > Histoire.
Retraités > France > Histoire.
France.
Europe.
HISTORY.
Modern.
European.
World.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Pensions > Government policy
Public welfare
Retirees
Social security
France
Economics.
Industry.
1789-1900
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Pensions as Favor and Pensions as Right
  • Careering Across the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Divide
  • Setting Rules from Old Regime to Midcentury
  • Restoration, Revolution, and Retirement: Ending Careers, 1814-
  • Entitlement and Complaint: Creating a Rhetoric of Retirement
  • Changing Content and Expectations
  • Gender, Widowhood, and the Limits of Entitlement
  • Conclusion.