Quand vieillesse rime avec pauvreté : perceptions et traitement social des travailleurs âgés dans le monde industriel victorien
The role and status of older people depend upon the mode of social organization and the structure of the economic system. This postulate of modern sociology explains why the advent of industrial society and the rise of capitalism, in the Victorian era, were bound to affect the perceptions and social...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/13421 |
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| Summary: | The role and status of older people depend upon the mode of social organization and the structure of the economic system. This postulate of modern sociology explains why the advent of industrial society and the rise of capitalism, in the Victorian era, were bound to affect the perceptions and social treatment of the elderly in England. Marginalised in the economic field and stigmatized in mainstream discourse, elderly workers underwent continuous social degradation. Consequently, the experience of old age merged with the experience of poverty. Since official and alternative strategies for dealing with this phenomenon were essentially off-target, they could only be ineffective. |
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| ISSN: | 0220-5610 2271-6149 |