Chapter 1 Demographic Aging as a Challenge to Modern Societies

Chapter 2 The Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Demography

Chapter 3 Population Aging and the Changing Economic Life Cycle: A Global Perspective

Chapter 4 Age Politics and Pension Systems Development and Reform

Chapter 5 Policy Feedbacks and Pension Policy Change

Chapter 6 Sovereign Debt Crises and Pension Reforms in Europe

Chapter 7 The UK Pensions Crisis and Institutional Innovation: Beyond Corporatism and Neoliberalism

Chapter 8 Work versus Leisure: Historical Roots of the Dissociation of Work and Later Life in Twentieth-Century Europe

Chapter 9 From Retirement to Active Aging: Changing Images of ‘Old Age’ in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries

Chapter 11 Changing Retirement Transitions in Times of Paradigmatic Political Change: Toward Growing Inequalities

Chapter 12 Intergenerational Equity: Historical Reconstructions

Chapter 13 Generational Justice, Generational Habitus and the ‘Problem’ of the Baby Boomers

Chapter 14 Generations in Aging Societies: Inequalities, Cleavages, Conflicts