Title
Unretirement : how baby boomers are changing the way we think about work, community, and the good life / Chris Farrell.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9781620401576 hardcover
1620401576 hardcover
Published
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
245 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HQ1063.2.U6 F37 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/8
Summary
"The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell, we are instead on the verge of a broad, positive transformation of our economy and society. The old idea of "retirement"-a word that means withdrawal, describing a time when people gave up productive employment and shrank their activities-was a short-lived historical anomaly. Humans have always found meaning and motivation in work and community, Farrell notes, and the boomer generation, poised to live longer in better health than any before, is already discovering unretirement-extending their working lives, often with new careers, entrepreneurial ventures, and volunteer service. Their experience, wisdom-and importantly, their continued earnings-will enrich the American workplace, treasury, and our whole society in the decades to come. Unretirement not only explains this seismic change, now in its early stages, it provides key insights and practical advice for boomers about to navigate this exciting, but unsettled, new frontier"--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.
Work long and prosper
A cause for celebration
Practical idealism at work
The only thing we have to fear is fearmongering
The vanguard of the 25/65 revolution
The movement against old age stereotypes
Retirement, a brief history of a radical idea
the rise of mass retirement
Rewriting the social compact
The Us generation
Third-age entrepreneurs
Aging boomers on the job
Planning for unretirement
The economic possibilities for grandparents
Appendix. DIY research.
