
Older Workers in Transition
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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.
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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.
Content
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 ~ Aine Ni Leime
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
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