Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes A Life Course perspective /

This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is ge...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Burnay, Nathalie (Editor), Ogg, Jim (Editor), Krekula, Clary (Editor), Vendramin, Patricia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Life Course Research and Social Policies, 14
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Gender, Transitions and Turning Points: The Life Course and Older Workers' Trajectories in Different US Occupations
  • Chapter 3. The Loss of Work Motivation Among Older Male Employees: Critical Perspectives to Policies Aimed at Extending Working Life in Finland
  • Chapter 4. Transitions into Precarity at Work Among Older Men in the Metal Industry in Portugal and Sweden
  • Chapter 5. Older Workers and Their Relations to the Labour Market in Albania
  • Chapter 6. Attitudes Towards Older People in the Labour Market and in Politics: A Cross-National Comparison
  • Chapter 7. Sustainable Work in an Ageing Perspective, Gender and Working Life Course
  • Chapter 8. Working Conditions and Retirement Preferences: The Role of Health and Subjective Age as Mediating Variables in the Association of Poor Job Quality with Early Retirement
  • Chapter 9. Health, Working Conditions and Retirement
  • Chapter 10. From Early Retirement to Extending Working Life: Institutionalisation and Standardization at the End of Career in Belgium
  • Chapter 11. Social Exclusion in Later Life, Evidence from the European Social Survey.