Ripe Old Rage
The French have a long history of protesting pension reforms.
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How Death Became Big Business
Instead of caring for the elderly, corporate interests in elder and hospice care are looking out for their bottom line.
What France’s Retirees Are Fighting For
Now under siege, France’s state-run pension system has delivered a decent standard of living to millions — a reality that retired telecom workers in Marseille have experienced firsthand.
Retirement Rhetoric
Not that you’ll ever need it, at this rate.
The Welfare State Can Survive the Great Aging
Workers spend their whole lives producing wealth for society, only to be told that being provided for in old age is impossible. It’s not a rollback ordinary people should accept.
The Lost Matriarchs of Hollywood
American cinema was once full of formidable, charismatic older women. What happened to them?
Five Books on Eldercare, Here and Abroad
We asked Jacobin contributor Suzanne Gordon to recommend some titles she worked on about the crisis of aging in America.
Kate Macintosh’s Gentle Brutalism
In 1960s London, the architect Kate Macintosh designed great modernist housing for the elderly, still beloved by its residents — but how long can it survive?
The Making of Millennial Socialism
Jacobin has been a flagship publication of “millennial socialism,” a phenomenon that began gathering force around 2010 and first fought its way into the political arena through the 2016 Bernie campaign. How did this generational movement come to be? And where does it go now?
Beach Bums and Desert Dialysis
Each year, more people travel abroad for critical medical treatment as well as aesthetic plastic surgery procedures. South Asia and South America remain major destinations.