Retiring Women: Work and Post-Work Transitions - Couverture rigide

Taylor, Philip; Earl, Catherine; Brooke, Elizabeth; McLoughlin, Christopher

 
9781783477159: Retiring Women: Work and Post-Work Transitions
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1783477156 ISBN 13 : 9781783477159
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

This book considers what work and retirement mean for older women, how each is experienced, and how working fits with other facets of their lives. The authors draw on data collected from women themselves, employers, industry stakeholders and older workers’ advocates, to explore older women’s experiences of work and retirement against a backdrop of current policy efforts to extend working lives in response to ageing societies.


Contrary to common representations of the situation of older workers, the data reveal how workplaces can be seen as relatively benign, and retirement viewed positively. It contributes to academic debate regarding identity, purpose and meaning in later life, identifying challenges for work-focused public policy.


Students and scholars of human resource management, sociology, gerontology and social policy will appreciate the extension of understanding older women’s life course trajectories that the book offers. Public policy-makers will benefit from the different representations of older women in the book, and the identification of where they would benefit from policy changes.

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À propos de l?auteur

Philip Taylor, Professor, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK, Catherine Earl, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Design, RMIT Vietnam, Elizabeth Brooke, Senior Research Fellow, Demography and Ageing Unit, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Christopher McLoughlin, Independent Researcher, Australia

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783477156
ISBN 13 
9781783477159
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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