Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes A Life Course perspective

• Other Authors: Burnay, Nathalie (Editor), Ogg, Jim (Editor), Krekula, Clary (Editor), Vendramin, Patricia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Series: Life Course Research and Social Policies
• Subjects: Sociology; Labour economics; Age groups: the elderly; Social issues & processes; Sociology: work & labour; Life course; Active aging; Inequalities; Working conditions; Critical gerontology; Social exclusion; Retirement preferences; Early retirement; Retirement timing; Extending working life; Manual labour; Loss of work motivation; Disability benefits; Retirement benefits; Older employees; Discrimination of older workers; Restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures
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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 generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong empirical evidence from different contexts, the impact of different life course trajectories on the risks and the opportunities at the end of career are demonstrated. The organisation of workplace and institutional frameworks which reinforce inequalities are also presented. As such the book is an essential reading for students, academics and policy makers who seek to understand how exclusion processes operate to the disadvantage of older workers in the labour market.