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Alfred Sauvy opposes systematic early retirement

Publication date 25/06/1962 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Professor Alfred Sauvy, a demographer and sociologist, is opposed to the idea that we have to retire early in order to provide jobs for young people. For him, this is a matter of prejudice because "employment is an extremely elastic fact and if we want to give jobs to everyone we just have to expand the French economy..." He believes that older people should not be brutally excluded from society. For as long as they are fit for a specific job, they must be given the choice between leaving early with a modest standard of living or not.

Work enthusiasts over 70

Publication date 04/12/2007 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Report on those who extend their activity beyond the legal retirement age. Maurice Tubiana, an 87-year-old cancer specialist, continues to visit his office more slowly every day. He refuses to let himself go for fear of loss. The Academy of Sciences has looked into the subject and according to Etienne Emile Baulieu, who is one of them, studies show that continuing to work in one’s profession, when it is not too physical, can have health benefits, particularly on the intellectual level.

Analysis by sociologist Anne-Marie Guillemard on the ambivalence of retirement

Publication date 01/11/1983 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Anne-Marie Guillemard, sociologist in charge of research at the CNRS, talks about retirement as a trauma for a majority of people. The relief of stopping work is accompanied by an anguish of empty time that not everyone succeeds in transforming into "free time". Inequalities, which already existed during working life, persist and affect the ability to maintain a network of sociability.

The aspirations of new retirees according to sociologist Xavier Gaullier

Publication date 20/04/1988 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Sociologist Xavier Gaullier talks about today’s retirees. If retirement is no longer spent on rest but on leisure, these "inactive" people feel the need to engage in activities of social benefit, creating a new form of volunteerism that will last only as long as the pension level, which is relatively high at the moment, allows it.

Sociologist Roger Sue pleads for a chosen free time

Publication date 23/10/1981 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Roger Sue, professor of sociology, says he is in favour of free time chosen during working life but also during retirement. Instead of stopping work at the age of 60, he proposes to arrange retirement time throughout his life.

Maximilienne Levet praises the slowness and weakness of older people

Publication date 15/11/1995 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Maximilienne Levet, doctor of social psychology, author of "The age of flamboyance", rehabilitates the values of slowness and weakness inherent in old age, which it places above those that acutely govern society: the speed and the law of the strongest.

Novelist Gabrielle Marquet puts retirement into perspective

Publication date 24/02/1984 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Novelist Gabrielle Marquet, who has just published "Les années-vermeil", answers Bernard Pivot on the consequences of the end of working life. She believes that retirement is experienced differently according to the individuals, some would be delighted to stop working from the age of 30 and others, like the winemaker whose example she gives, would die of having to give up their passion even at a very old age.

Bernard Cathelat predicts life cycle organization

Publication date 21/02/2000 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

For the sociologist Bernard Cathelat, in twenty years, it will be the refusal of the "very young from 18 to 59 and a half and, all of a sudden, old". Life will be organized in cycles, work will no longer think of itself as "all or nothing", and, according to him, it may even be that retirement no longer exists and that one remains active until the end of one’s life.

Retirement is a brutal transition for sociologist Evelyne Sullerot

Publication date 10/01/1986 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Asked by Bernard Pivot about retirement, once idealized, sociologist Evelyne Sullerot, author of "The working age", confirms the difficulty of this transition, one of the most brutal that is, according to her, and to which nothing prepares.

Leisure, the central problem of the future for Jean Fourastié

Publication date 11/08/1966 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

The economist Jean Fourastié raises the question of leisure, the share of which continues to grow. "The central problem of the future", according to him, he wonders about what man will do with all this free time, present throughout his life but especially during the last third of his life, when he left the working life.

Sociologist Guy Aznar talks about retirement at 60

Publication date 22/01/1982 From €100.00

Retreat: words of intellectuals

Interview with sociologist Guy Aznar about retirement at 60. He sees this as a positive step, but cautions against the disadvantages it can create in society.

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