Chris Gilleard

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Ageing Under the Union

Buch

Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland's population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908. It examines the changing demography of the country following the Famine and the impact this had on household and family structure. It explores the growing problem of late life poverty and the residualisation of the aged sick and poor in the workhouse. Despite slow improvements in many areas of life for the young and the working classes, the book argues that for the aged the union was a period of growing immiseration, broug… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-58540-0
EAN: 9781137585400
Produktnummer: 21888316
Verlag: Springer Nature
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 114 S.
Masse: H22.1 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.5 cm 314 g
Auflage: 2017
Gewicht: 314

Über den Autor

Chris Gilleard is a visiting research fellow in the Division of Psychiatry at University College London, UK, and senior visiting research fellow at the University of Bath, UK. Author and co-author with Paul Higgs of a number of books addressing ageing and old age -including Cultures of Ageing (2000); Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment (2013) and Rethinking Old Age (2015)- his interests in later life span a wide range of disciplines from bio medicine to the humanities.