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... 1976 68 _I Early Retirement Association MARHO Introduces THE EARLY RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION (ERA) Membership Qualifications: A. Those who were formerly employed as historians; or, B. Those self-proclaimed historians, either by training...

...Amelia Kennedy Abstract This article explores issues of labor, community, and authority in medieval Europe through an examination of older Cistercian abbots and the practice of abbatial “retirement.” While historians typically associate the Cistercians with greater acceptance of abbatial...

... of working-class identity and interests. Ultimately, it argues that the position taken by labor leaders narrowed the labor movement’s vision of its constituents and its mission. This narrowed vision led them to view impoverished retired union workers as their opponents rather than as comrades in a shared...

... in this issue demonstrate the power of this approach, exploring histories of later life in the context of slave societies, retirement, social movements, and gendered embodiment. Together, contributors model a radical history of old age that centers power, historical struggle, and linked lives. Copyright ©...

...Jan Huebenthal Abstract In November 1987, Linwood Boyette, an African American man and retired US army sergeant, became one of the first people in West Germany to be jailed for alleged HIV transmission, following charges brought under a legal Maßnahmenkatalog (catalog of measures) in the state...

... and Africa. He worked as a labor organizer and labor journalist in the US and Puerto Rico, and recently retired as director of the Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In the interview, Soler discusses his early relationships to the Black Panthers and Chicano...

... United flight attendants, their union, grassroots gay and AIDS activists, and mainstream LGBT political organizations that successfully challenged that lawsuit and won new medical and retirement benefits. By 1990, both conservatives and many LGBT activists were framing nuclear family as the organizing...

..., Inc. 2021 age pensions welfare Fordism retirement Of all the social policy reforms to emerge from the New Deal, Social Security has proven the most far-reaching and enduring, at least in its direct effects. The program drastically reorganized the normative American life course—in turn...

... in the midst of state neglect. These visions primarily entailed creating economic opportunities for one another and their broader communities, securing fair wages and the right to a just retirement, organizing school cafeterias, advocating for the creation of public high schools, teaching night and weekend...

... on Universities of the Third Age, Canadian snowbird retirement culture, other critiques of antiaging, and neoliberal “positive” and active aging regimes that eventually became the bases of my book Cultural Aging: Life Course, Lifestyle, and Senior Worlds (2005). 2 At the same time, my wonderful colleagues...

... assured of "a wonderful retirement and thrift saving plan, both supplemented by the Federal government" (Socialism in One Country Fort Hood, the memo added, "is located in beauti- ful Central Texas, off Interstate 35, wi th Wac0 only an hour away." Sounds irresistible, doesn't it? Command...

...). THE ABUSABLE PAST/199 Behind these headlines stood a number of academic prognosticators with rather cloudy crystal balls who warned that a wave of faculty retirements and student enrollments would leave lecterns empty around the country within a matter of years. Most notable among the "experts...

... , 10–15, 80–87 ; Schlesinger, “Medicare and the Social Transformation of American Elders” ; Starr, Remedy and Reaction , 41–62 . 8. The historian Jesse Ballenger argues that ideas of dependency were increasingly stigmatized after midcentury, as new ideas of active retirement (ironically...

... of retirement as well as the sociological “activity theory” of aging, that any problems old gays and lesbians experienced were due to individual poor planning or personal failures. 16 Homophile activists’ thinking about aging and older adulthood reflected a broader social stigmatization of old age...

... operative in St. Louis, Missouri. Weil made a chronicle of Susan in transition — retiring her military service to the United States Army, presiding at a theatrical “Irish wake” mourning the symbolic death of her male identity and commemorating her legal transition to female, and undertaking...

... of another scholar in the courtroom. Helena hilie, a 76-year-old retired sociology professor from New York. As a member of the 2 Live Crew jury, she championed the view that ”you take away one freedom, and pretty soon theyre all gone.” No doubt hilie’s 1954 Columbia doctoral thesis on “intergroup...

... is the author of A History of Retirement: The Meaning and Function of an American Institution, 2885-2978. His essay in this issue is part of a larger study of youth culture in postwar Buffalo. R. J. LAMBROSE recently resigned from the Teddy Roosevelt Chair at St. George’s...

..., 1990), won the Herbert Baxter Adams and Robert Livingston Schuyler prizes of the American Historical Associa tion in 1991. R. J. Lambrose is currently ghostwriting the autobiog- raphy of a retired public official. He can’t reveal his full name, but the first name is Caspar. Eugene Leach...

... movement, and San Francisco Bay Area radicalism from 1950-1980. Nelcya DelanoC! is a professor of U.S. history at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. Frank Donner, a retired attorney, has written extensively on political surveillance in the United States. He is now completing Exploring...

... of Africans and rural retirement in South Africa. Donald Reid is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization and Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities...