Becoming and Being Old

Introduction/PART ONE: BECOMING OLD/Property Rites? An Investigation of Tenure Change in Middle Age/Between Work and Retirement/Becoming `Old' in the 1980s/Work-Ending/Employment and Ambiguity in Later Life/A Part to Play/Men Experiencing Leisure through Retirement/PART TWO: BEING OLD/Transitions in Caring/Gender Life Course and the Care of the Elderly/Poverty Care and Age/A Case Study/Differentiation in Later Life/Social Class and Housing Tenure Cleavages/The Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Europe in the 1980s/PART THREE: OLD AGE/Ageing and Old Age/Reflections on the Postmodern Life Course/Does Age Matter? The Case of Old Age in Minority Ethnic Groups