1. Elderly and work: reflections on retirement.
- Author
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Del Trecco, Angela Maria Zocchi
- Subjects
RETIREMENT ,RETIREMENT age ,AGE & employment ,SOCIETIES ,DEVELOPED countries - Abstract
The author analyzes the position of the elderly in the preindustrial and industrial society, focussing on the institute of retirement. She describes the policy followed in the US and in several European countries, putting in evidence the necessity of a revision of a rigid retirement age and criticizing recent measures taken by the Italian government. The author recognizes that the extension of the working period could avoid social exclusion, but she also argues that retirement should be a free choice, though activity is not necessarily connected with work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 1992