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GENERATIONS OF LUCKY DEVILS AND UNLUCKY DOGS - ...

Silver-grey manpower is a gold mine to society. One by one  the baby boom cohorts will reach
the age of 65 starting from 2010. They are large cohorts  relatively well educated and healthy
with considerable pension and health care rights. In short  they are lucky devils. As a result
of ageing  cohorts that were born in 1985 onwards and that enter the labour market as from
approximately 2010 will be required to pay many additional taxes during the course of their
entire working life spanning more than forty years. They are  in short  unlucky dogs.
Redistribution of joys and burdens could trigger conflicts between generations. A better
solution is to identify and deploy society's hidden resources. Taking this issue as a basis 
the book in hand explores strategies that enable senior citizens and young people to give
meaning to solidarity among generations  for a start in 2012 as the European Year for Active
Ageing  but also as part of Europe 2020  the European Commission's 2010-2020 strategy. With
these two strategies journalists and television producers will swing into action. In secondary
and higher education as well as in universities more papers on life courses and patterns of
generations will be written than ever before. Senior citizens' unions but actually all social
organizations will organize lectures. Educated laymen will wish to go deeply into this issue.
Henk A. Becker (1933) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Utrecht University in the
Netherlands. He has worked on a research project focusing on generations since 1985.

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