Age Discrimination : An Historical and Contemporary Analysis

List of figures vi List of tables vii Acknowledgements ix Part I Ageism and Age Discrimination 1(68) Analysing ageism and age discrimination 3(45) Justice between generations 48(21) Part II The Current Revival of Interest in Britain 69(50) New Labour and age discrimination 71(48) Part III Retirement, health status and work-disability 119(88) Health status and old age 121(12) From the late nineteenth century to the 1940s 133(18) The 1950s and 1960s in Britain 151(26) The recent debate 177(30) Part IV America's Age Discrimination in Employment Act 207(61) The age discrimination debate, from the 1920s to 1967 209(25) From 1967 to the present 234(29) Conclusion 263(5) Bibliography 268(31) Index 299