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Just rewards Commentary Bill Bytheway Previously Researcher, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Open University, UK The publication in 1989 of Workers Versus consuming scarce resources and testing ‘our’ Pensioners: Intergenerational justice in an tolerance and sympathy. ageing world (Johnson et al, 1989) sent a shiver There is an alternative perspective: a of apprehension and excitement through the population made up of different generations, body of British social gerontology. For the first each associated with particular events or time it seemed, we were connecting with the experiences. For example, domestic policy unfolding ‘big’ history of the world in which we over the last 60 years has been dominated by lived. The opening chapter, for example, made a sense of debt towards the generation who the case for a redistribution of resources to ‘fought in the war’. In contrast, a more negative younger generations and it ended: view has developed of the attitude of the ‘baby- boom generation’ typified by the T-shirt slogan ‘If no action is taken, the competition ‘Spending my kids’ inheritance’. And then for resources between workers and there are these ‘kids’, often dubbed ‘Thatcher’s pensioners will break the fiscal basis children’ with no experience of the pre-1979 of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quality in Ageing and Older Adults Emerald Publishing

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Bytheway, Bill
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults , Volume 11 (3): 3 – Sep 13, 2010
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Commentary Bill Bytheway Previously Researcher, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Open University, UK The publication in 1989 of Workers Versus consuming scarce resources and testing ‘our’ Pensioners: Intergenerational justice in an tolerance and sympathy. ageing world (Johnson et al, 1989) sent a shiver There is an alternative perspective: a of apprehension and excitement through the population made up of different generations, body of British social gerontology. For the first each associated with particular events or time it seemed, we were connecting with the experiences. For example, domestic policy unfolding ‘big’ history of the world in which we over the last 60 years has been dominated by lived. The opening chapter, for example, made a sense of debt towards the generation who the case for a redistribution of resources to ‘fought in the war’. In contrast, a more negative younger generations and it ended: view has developed of the attitude of the ‘baby- boom generation’ typified by the T-shirt slogan ‘If no action is taken, the competition ‘Spending my kids’ inheritance’. And then for resources between workers and there are these ‘kids’, often dubbed ‘Thatcher’s pensioners will break the fiscal basis children’ with no experience of the pre-1979 of

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