Retirement Is a Foreign Country: Work beyond Retirement and Elder Care in Socialist Bulgaria

In this article, I investigate state policies in socialist rule Bulgaria, encouraging pensioners to work beyond retirement and their impact on eldercare. First, argue that the 1970s, Bulgarian began occupying economic niches similar those of labor migrants Western Europe. The actively promoting after were introduced parallel with legislation older people distribute property among potential heirs as a donation instead last will. combination inheritance patterns had negative eldercare should be taken into consideration when designing new addressed at working pensioners. research is based letters complaint or denunciation from available State Archives.