Can I read Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : Ageing Under the Union on EtoBox?

Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : Ageing Under the Union by Chris Gilleard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : Ageing Under the Union about?

Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland's population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908. It examines the changing demography of the country following the Famine and the impact this had on household and family structure. It explores the growing problem of late life poverty and the residualisation of the aged sick and poor in the workhouse. Despite slow improvements in many areas of life for the young and the working classes, the book argues that for the aged the union was a period of growing immiseration, brought surprisingly to an end by the unheralded introduction of the old age pension.-- Provided by publisher

Who reads Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland : Ageing Under the Union?

Author

Chris Gilleard

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137585417

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Literary Criticism