Table of Contents

    ~ Marvin Formosa and Paul Higgs

Social class structures and social mobility: the background context

   ~ Wendy Bottero

Ageing and class in a globalised world

   ~ Chris Phillipson

Measuring social class in later life

   ~ Alexandra Lopes

Social class, age and identity in later life

   ~ Martin Hyde and Ian Rees Jones

Class, pensions and old-age security

   ~ Elizangela Storelli and John Williamson

Class and health inequalities in later life

   ~ Ian Rees Jones and Paul Higgs

Class, care and caring

   ~ Christina Victor

Social work, class and later life

   ~ Trish Hafford-Letchfield

The changing significance of social class in later life

   ~ Marvin Formosa and Paul Higgs