Someday All This Will Be Yours : A History of Inheritance and Old Age / Hendrik Hartog.
Hartog, Hendrik, author.
2012
KF771
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Title Someday All This Will Be Yours : A History of Inheritance and Old Age / Hendrik Hartog.
Author Hartog, Hendrik, author.
ISBN 9780674062634
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062634
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (368 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674062634 doi
Call Number KF771
Dewey Decimal Classification 346.7305/2
Summary We all hope that we will be cared for as we age. But the details of that care, for caretaker and recipient alike, raise some of life's most vexing questions. From the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of care and its compensation.Someday All This Will Be Yours narrates the legal and emotional strategies mobilized by older people, and explores the ambivalences of family members as they struggled with expectations of love and duty. Court cases offer an extraordinary glimpse of the mundane, painful, and intimate predicaments of family life. They reveal what it meant to be old without the pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes that now do much of the work of serving the elderly. From demented grandparents to fickle fathers, from litigious sons to grateful daughters, Hartog guides us into a world of disputed promises and broken hearts, and helps us feel the terrible tangle of love and commitments and money.From one of the bedrocks of the human condition-the tension between the infirmities of the elderly and the longings of the young-emerges a pioneering work of exploration into the darker recesses of family life. Ultimately, Hartog forces us to reflect on what we owe and are owed as members of a family.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Over the Hill
Part One: Planning for Old Age
Chapter One. Of Helplessness and Power
Chapter Two. The Work of Promises
Chapter Three. Keeping Them Close
Chapter Four. Things Fall Apart
Part Two: Death and Lawyers
Chapter Five. A Life Transformed
Chapter Six. Compensations for Care
Chapter Seven. Paid Work
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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