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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Lucky Few
    sub title: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom
  name:
    name part: Carlson, Elwood.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 216 p. online resource.
  abstract: Born during the Great Depression and World War Two (1929 – 1945) - between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom - an entire generation has slipped between the cracks of history. Yet behind the scenes, these Lucky Few became the first American generation smaller than the one before them, and the luckiest generation of Americans ever. As children they experienced the most stable intact parental families in the nation’s history. Lucky Few women married earlier than any other generation of the century and helped give birth to the Baby Boom, yet also gained in education compared to earlier generations. Lucky Few men made the greatest gains of the century in schooling, earned veterans benefits like the Greatest Generation but served mostly in peacetime with only a fraction of the casualties, came closest to full employment, and spearheaded the trend toward earlier retirement. More than any other generation, Lucky Few men advanced into professional and white-collar jobs while Lucky Few women concentrated in the clerical "pink-collar ghetto." Even in retirement and old age the Lucky Few remain in the right place at the right time. Here is their story, and the story of how they have affected other recent generations of Americans before and since. "Carlson’s work provides an examination of a previously neglected generation while at the same time teaching us how important generational location in general is in determining life chances. It will be a treasured work for the scholars in this area". Steve H. Murdock, Director, U.S. Census Bureau "Carlson makes the issue of a cohort and cohort analysis come alive". Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Texas A&M University "The richly documented account of the varying fates of American generations, based chiefly on IPUMS data, provides a fresh perspective on the history of the United States in the twentieth century. This book will become a classic of historical sociology". Steven Ruggles, Director, IPUMS Project "As a member of the Lucky Few …
  table of contents: Who are the Lucky Few? -- American Generations of the Twentieth Century -- Unlikely Origins -- Growing Up Golden -- Peacetime Patriots -- High Road to Money and Power -- At the Heart of the Silent Majority -- The Lucky Few in Black and White -- The Best Time to Retire -- Could It Happen Again?.
  note: by Elwood Carlson.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Population
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Population Economics
  classification: HB848-3697
  classification: 304.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402085413
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8541-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204142858.0
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