...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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. We would like...

... reinstalling it within a particular sequence of social time whose order and logic were generational, structured and sustained by the family, and yoked to the work ethic and savings of the breadwinner. In this context, Roosevelt’s description of retirement as the “natural profits” of labor, generally read...

.... These resulted in research 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...

... 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...

... Area seminary, Kuhn crossed paths with Lillian Rabinowitz. The women connected immediately, and Rabinowitz quickly took to the project of developing a Gray Panthers network in the East Bay. 14 The two women had markedly different experiences leading up to retirement: Kuhn had been born to a well...

... the notion, prevalent in postwar discussions 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...

...” Susan and the Transgender Archive Jeanne Vaccaro In 1992 photographer Brian Weil began an intensive video documentation of “Susan,” a transsexual woman and military special operative in St. Louis, Missouri. Weil made a chronicle of Susan in transition — retiring her military service...

... 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...

.... 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 is a professor of history and American studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently working on images...