The History of Retirement

The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Thane, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big business firms; Bureaucracy; Economic change; Employer pensions; Industrialization; State pensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924069825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199272464.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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