Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life (eBook, ePUB)

Cross-National Perspectives
Redaktion: Krekula, Clary; Loretto, Wendy; Ni Leime, Aine; Street, Debra; Vickerstaff, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles. The international contributors to this book - part of the Ageing in a Global Context series - apply life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement. They consider the range of transitions from paid work to retirement that are potentially different for women and men in different family circumstances and occupational locations, and offer solutions governments should consider to enable them to evaluate existing policies. Based on evidence from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, this is essential reading for researchers and students, and for policymakers who formulate and implement employment and pensions policy at national and international levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447325147
• Artikelnr.: 49066475

Autorenporträt

Áine Ní Léime is a Marie Sklodowska Curie International Outgoing Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway. She conducts research on gender, ageing and work. Debra Street is Chair of the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Sarah Vickerstaff is Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Kent, UK. Clary Krekula is Associated Professor of Sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden. She undertakes research on critical age studies and on organisational ageing. Wendy Loretto is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections between gender and age in employment.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: Gendering later life work: Empirical, theoretical and policy
issues The empirical landscape of extended working lives ~ Debra Street
Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda ~
Clary Krekula and Sarah Vickerstaff Gender perspectives on extended working
life policies ~ Áine Ní Léime and Wendy Loretto PART TWO: Extended working
life in seven OECD countries The Australian empirical landscape of extended
working lives: a gender perspective ~ Elizabeth Brooke Extended working
lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in
policy transition ~ Anna Hokema Extended working life, gender and
precarious work in Ireland ~ Áine Ní Léime, Nata Duvvury and Caroline Finn
Ageing and older workers in Portugal: a gender-sensitive approach ~ Sara
Falcão Casaca and Heloísa Perista Sweden: an extended working life policy
that overlooks gender considerations ~ Clary Krekula, Lars-Gunnar Engström
and Aida Alvinius The United Kingdom - a new moral imperative: live longer,
work longer ~ Sarah Vickerstaff and Wendy Loretto Is 70 the new 60?
Extending American women's and men's working lives ~ Debra Street and
Joanne Tompkins PART THREE: Conclusion Gendered and extended work: research
and policy needs for work in later life ~ Sarah Vickerstaff, Debra Street,
Áine Ní Léime and Clary Krekula