The Work of Retirement

IF 0.8 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2023-02-20 DOI:10.1017/s0020859023000196
Jeffrey Sklansky
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In the past few decades, caregivers, such as nursing assistants and home health aides, have come to compose the fastest-growing segment of the paid workforce in the United States. At the same time, corporate caretakers of workers’ savings, such as pension funds and mutual funds, have become the nation's largest investors, bound by fiduciary duties of trust. And unprecedented numbers of elder employees and retirees have become the biggest supposed beneficiaries of both care labor and trust capital, depending on health workers and asset managers in their daily lives. At the center of this emerging structure of work, wealth, and welfare lies the pension system, a telling crucible of class relations in our time. Several recent books across different disciplines examine the shifting politics of pensions in the United States and around the world. The spate of new studies presents an opportunity to explore the remarkable role of retirement funds in reorganizing labor and finance over the past fifty years. Rather than offering a historiographical critique of current work, this expository essay surveys the main findings of a larger and longer body of scholarship on organized labor and investment related to pensions. Though focused on the United States, it places the American story in a comparative context. The survey points to a fertile field for further study: as retirees have increasingly relied on professional asset managers and caregivers, the finance and health sectors have undergone converging crises over fiduciary duty and elder care, posing parallel challenges for organized labor.

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退休后的工作
在过去的几十年里,护理人员,如护理助理和家庭健康助理,已经成为美国有偿劳动力中增长最快的部分。与此同时,管理工人储蓄的企业,如养老基金和共同基金,受到信托信托责任的约束,已成为美国最大的投资者。而且,数量空前的老年雇员和退休人员已经成为护理劳动力和信托资本的最大受益者,他们的日常生活依赖于医疗工作者和资产管理公司。这种新兴的工作、财富和福利结构的核心是养老金制度,它是我们这个时代阶级关系的一个明显的坩埚。最近几本跨越不同学科的书研究了美国和世界各地养老金政治的变化。大量的新研究提供了一个机会来探索退休基金在过去五十年中重组劳动力和金融的显着作用。而不是提供一个史学的批评当前的工作,这篇说明文调查的主要发现一个更大的和更长的机构的奖学金有组织的劳动和投资相关的养老金。虽然这本书关注的是美国,但它把美国的故事放在一个比较的背景下。该调查指出了一个可供进一步研究的广阔领域:随着退休人员越来越依赖专业资产管理公司和护理人员,金融和卫生部门在受托责任和老年人护理方面经历了共同的危机,对有组织的劳工构成了平行的挑战。
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期刊介绍: International Review of Social History, is one of the leading journals in its field. Truly global in its scope, it focuses on research in social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective, both in the modern and in the early modern period, and across periods. The journal combines quality, depth and originality of its articles with an open eye for theoretical innovation and new insights and methods from within its field and from contiguous disciplines. Besides research articles, it features surveys of new themes and subject fields, a suggestions and debates section, review essays and book reviews. It is esteemed for its annotated bibliography of social history titles, and also publishes an annual supplement of specially commissioned essays on a current theme.
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