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'The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence' by Gavan McCormack is reviewed.

About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the reader -- Prologue: premises and problems -- Studying person and property in global perspective -- Force fields of persons and properties -- The emergence of the propertied self -- Early responses to the rise of the propertied self -- Consumutopia: psychology, property, and progress -- Reacting to the propertied self: inventing the future -- Legitimizing and stabilizing the propertied self -- The propertied self in late modern politics -- Epilogue: lessons from history? -- Appendices -- References -- Index

This paper examines and analyzes retirement, mandatory and flexible, as a complex social pattern and process in Canada and the United States. The paper first focuses on social forces and trends — demographic, financial, physical, attitudinal and legal — leading society away from mandatory retirement and toward more flexible retirement. Second, it examines viable arguments for mandatory retirement and empirical verification of its limited impact on the labour force. It also analyzes complexities involved in the issue, particularly organized labour's ambivalence about mandatory retirement. Third, it suggests four important functions that counsellors can perform in preparing people for the realities of retirement. Policy implications for Canada with respect to retirement are indicated. ; Cet article examine et analyse la retraite, obligatoire et flexible, comme patron et processussociaux complexes au Canada et aux Etats-Unis. L'article vise d'abord aux forces et tendances sociales — démographiques, financières, physiques, d'attitude et légales — qui dirigent la société de la retraite obligatoire vers la retraite plus flexible. Ensuite, nous examinons les raisons viables pour la retraite obligatoire et la vérification empirique de son impact limité sur la main d'oeuvre. Nous analysons les complexités comprises, surtout l'ambivalence des syndicats sur la retraite obligatoire. Finalement, nous suggérons quatre fonctions importantes que peuvent faire les conseillers qui préparent lesgens aux réalités de la retraite. Des implications de la politique de la retraite au Canada sont indiquées.

McVeigh reviews YOUTH DEVIANCE IN JAPAN: Class Reproduction of Non-Conformity by Robert Stuart Yoder.