Inventing Retirement: The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain
List of tables and figures Preface Part I. The Rise of Pensioning: 1. Savings, work and old age in Victorian Britain 2. Rival pioneers of collectivism: pensions, the state and employers (1899-1927) 3. The insurance challenge (1927-56) 4. The state: partner or competitor? (1940-78) 5. Competition and professionalisation: the maturing of the pension market (1956-79) Part II. The Shaping of the Modern Pensions Institution: 6. Accident and design in the evolution of pensions 7. Pensions in peril? security, solvency and vesting 8. Designing the benefit structure 9. Retirement: age discrimination or the fruits of prosperity? Epilogue Statistical appendix A note on sources Notes Index.