Older Workers in Transition

European Experiences in a Neoliberal Era

David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff, Mariska van der Horst (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2022
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1500-7 (ISBN)

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This collection explores a variety of job transitions for older people, including voluntary job moves, coming out of unemployment, temporary labour and passages into retirement. Each chapter hears the voices of older workers and employers, and is positioned within the context of various European countries, with important lessons for future policy.

More people are extending their working lives through necessity or choice in the context of increasingly precarious labour markets and neoliberalism. This book goes beyond the aggregated statistics to explore the lived experiences of older people attempting to make job transitions.

Drawing on the voices of older workers in a diverse range of European countries, leading scholars explore job redeployment and job mobility, temporary employment, unemployment, employment beyond pension age and transitions into retirement.

This book makes a major contribution and will be essential reading within a range of disciplines, including social gerontology, management, sociology and social policy.

David Lain is Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies at Newcastle University. Sarah Vickerstaff is Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Kent. Mariska van der Horst is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Part I: Introducing Older Worker Job Transitions in a Neoliberal Era

1. Job Transitions in Older Age in an Era of Neoliberal Responsibilisation ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst

2. The Social Construction of Work and Retirement: Changing Transitions and ‘Work- endings’ ~ Chris Phillipson

Part II: European Experiences of Older Worker Transitions

3. Job Redeployment of Older Workers in UK Local Government ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst

4. Time, Precarisation and Age Normality: On Internal Job Mobility among Men in Manual Work in Sweden ~ Clary Krekula

5. Temporary Older Workers in Belgium as a Demonstration of a Paradoxical Situation ~ Nathalie Burnay

6. Attempted Transitions from Unemployment in Italy ~ Emma Garavaglia

7. Divorced Women Working Past Pension Age in Germany and the UK: The Long Shadow of the Female Homemaker Model~ Anna Hokema

8. Expectations of Transitions to Retirement in Ireland ~ Áine Ní Léime

Part III: Conclusions and Discussion

9. Retirement and Responsibilisation: Current Narratives about the End of Working Life ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst

Erscheinungsdatum	14.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Rethinking Work, Ageing and Retirement
Zusatzinfo	12 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-5292-1500-5 / 1529215005
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-1500-7 / 9781529215007
Zustand	Neuware