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The Social Production of Old Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Alan Walker
Alan Walker
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Department of Sociological StudiesUniversity of Sheffield
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Ageing & Society , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , November 1983 , pp. 387 - 395
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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1 Social Services Committee, Age of Retirement, Third Report, Session 1981–82, HC 26–1, HMSO, London, 1982Google Scholar

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