Vom Greis zum Rentner

Conrad, Christoph

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“…Pensioners began to organise, and the elderly began to be viewed as a coherent social group with specific medical and fiscal needs. 89 This story has been told elsewhere, but considering what we have seen in this article, what was so remarkable about this new discourse is how much it focused on the tribulations of men. Women's literature, as in the bestselling romances of Hedwig Courths-Mahler, had no need for elderly women as guides any longer.…”

Section: The Masculinisation Of Old Agementioning

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Wrinkles in Time: Old Age, Gender and Temporality in Nineteenth‐Century Germany

Chappel¹

2022

Gender & History

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This article explores one of the classic questions in the history of old age: what happened to the status of the elderly in the nineteenth century? How do we explain the emergence of the modern notion of an old age defined by ‘declines’ of every sort (cognitive, physical, financial)? The article focuses on Germany, then and now a global leader on this issue, and it focuses on women, whose ageing was more widely discussed than that of men. It shows that the great nineteenth‐century debate about the elderly was not about industrialisation, labour, health or social policy. It was a debate about time. The cultural understanding of the elderly changed because the culture of temporality did. The focus on futurity and the youth around 1900 is well known, as modern Germany became convulsed with imperial fantasies and electric urban life. This had, it turns out, negative repercussions for older Germans. No longer the accretions of a long past of wisdom and experience, they were identified instead with their short future of corporeal decline and death. The social attitude towards older people is therefore related to the broader social attitude towards time, history and change: a finding that might apply in other times and places, including our own.

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Section: The Masculinisation Of Old Agementioning

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Wrinkles in Time: Old Age, Gender and Temporality in Nineteenth‐Century Germany

Chappel¹

2022

Gender & History

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“…The field of sickness insurance was also dominated by private insurance funds and their individualizing insurance traditions (Leimgruber 2008: 263-79). In France and Germany, too, professional associations with their private insurance schemes influenced the expansion of public old-age, unemployment, or sickness insurance (Conrad 1994;Mares 2003). In Britain, old-age insurance operated in a two-tier system, and during the postwar decades, the growth in old-age pensions was mainly driven by the expansion of corporate and private forms of insurance (Harris 2004: 6f.).…”

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“…This article therefore contributes to recent research highlighting the significance of both transnational and private actors for the development of social security systems. The relevance of transnational networks or international organizations has been stressed by a number of authors, including Sandrine Kott (Kott and Droux 2013), Christoph Conrad (2006), and Madeleine Herren (2006). Since the mid-nineteenth century, experts and bureaucrats dealt with the social question not only at a national level, but also in transnational networks at international congresses or world exhibitions.…”

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Cultural Meanings of Social Security in Postwar Europe

Lengwiler¹

2015

Social Science History

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The emergence of postwar welfare states in Europe is usually understood as a social and political phenomenon, as a social policy to prevent against forms of mass poverty and to grant general social rights and entitlements to populations during a period of rising prosperity. Beyond these sociopolitical aspects, the foundation of systems of social security after 1945 also had important cultural and epistemic implications. The promise of the state to provide a generalized form of security represented an important cultural factor in securing the social and political stability of postwar societies in Europe. This article examines some exemplary aspects of the meaning of social security by tracing their historical roots and their effects on postwar welfare states in Western Europe. In order to chart the various, interconnected cultural meanings of social security, it juxtaposes two institutional contexts in which social security and prevention were discussed: an international organization of social security experts and a Swiss life insurance company with an innovative health promotion service. The article shows how security was seen ultimately as an utopian response to the multiplication of risks and damages through the processes of industrialization and modernization and thus reveals how security served as both a technical concept for managing integrated systems of insurance and an instrument of control and calculation to help administer the economic and social policies of modern societies. By focusing on the example of life insurance, it demonstrates how security acted as an umbrella term for a generalized model of prevention that targeted the specific risks of a modern, middle-class consumer society.

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Age Categories in Social Security Systems

Huster

2022

Schriften Zu Gesundheit Und Gesellschaft - Studies on Health and Society

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Vom Greis zum Rentner

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Wrinkles in Time: Old Age, Gender and Temporality in Nineteenth‐Century Germany

Wrinkles in Time: Old Age, Gender and Temporality in Nineteenth‐Century Germany

Cultural Meanings of Social Security in Postwar Europe

Age Categories in Social Security Systems

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