A World Growing Old - Hardcover

Seabrook, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745318401 ISBN 13: 9780745318400

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2003

Synopsis

Here, Jeremy Seabrook examines the real implications of the ageing phenomenon and challenges our preconceptions about how it should be tackled. Arguing that the accumulated skills and experience ofthe elderly should be employed to enrich society, rather than being perceived as a "burden", he makes a case for a radical re-thinking of our attitude to population issues, migration, social structures and employment policy.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeremy Seabrook is a researcher and writer. He is the author of The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny 1933 - 2008 (2008), Consuming Cultures: Globalization and Local Lives (2006), Travels in the Skin Trade (Pluto, 2001) and Cities (Pluto, 2007).

Review:

"Jeremy Seabrook [has] a preacher's talent for prophesy and a capacity for righteous indignation reminiscent of George Orwell." -- Guardian

"The inspirational Jeremy Seabrook beats any celebrity radical in the art of speaking hard truths through fine prose." -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0745318401
• ISBN 13: 9780745318400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200