Admittedly many activities open to the elderly involve unpaid labor for which younger adults may receive salaries. Such unpaid workers include hospital volunteers (versus aides and orderlies) drivers for charities such as the Red Cross (versus chauffeurs) tutors (as opposed to teachers) and craftspeople for charity bazaars (as opposed to carpenters and dressmakers). However some companies to hire retirees for full-time or part-time work. For example about 130 of the 600 reservationists at the Day Inn motel chain are over 60 years of age. Disengagement theory suggests older people find satisfaction in withdrawal from society. Functionally speaking they conveniently recede into the background and allow the next generation to take over. Proponents of activity theory view such withdrawal as harmful for both the elderly and society and focus on the potential contributions of older people to the maintenance of society. In their opinion aging citizens will feel satisfied only when they can be useful and productive in society’s terms-primarily by working for wages (Civic Ventures 1999; Dowd 1980; Quadagno 1999).