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Pension Systems and Inequality in Old Age: Germany and Great Britain since 1945

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Wednesday, April 06, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cornelius Torp
Wednesdays at the Center

This talk explores the history of old age and the post-war welfare state in Germany and Great Britain. It focuses on what has often been considered two distinct models of welfare capitalism, a liberal welfare regime and a conservative one. The talk explores the different developments of pension provisions in each country, with a particular emphasis on the importance of divergent organizing and ideas about social justice. It will then examine the social consequences of the two pension systems and the living conditions of the elderly from a cross-national comparative perspective.

Cornelius Torp is currently the Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair at the University of Toronto. He has taught at the Universities of Halle and Augsburg. He has been a research fellow at the Postgraduate Research Program at the University of Bielefeld and at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), and both a Marie Curie Fellow and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author ofGerechtigkeit im Wohlfahrtsstaat. Alter und Alterssicherung in Deutschland und Großbritannien von 1945 bis heute (Göttingen, 2015); Die Herausforderung der Globalisierung. Wirtschaft und Politik in Deutschland 1860-1914 (Göttingen, 2005), which was published in English with Berghahn Books in 2014, and Max Weber und die preußischen Junker (Tübingen, 1998).