Overview
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- Identifies the exclusion processes related to older workers
- Describes how earlier life course trajectories impact labour force participation in later life
- Analyses how employers promote or discriminate against participation of older workers
Part of the book series: Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 14)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Keywords
- 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
- Open Access
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathalie Burnay is Full Professor in Sociology at the University of Namur and at the University of Louvain. Her main research focuses on the evolution of social policies and changes in working conditions in a perspective of extending working life. She has been member of the executive board of the ‘Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française’ (AISLF) since 2016 and director of the research committee on “Parcours de vie et vieillissement” of AISLF.
Jim Ogg is Associate Researcher of the Ageing Research Unit, French National Pension Fund. He has worked in the field of social gerontology since 1987. His main research areas include ageing and family life, the transition to retirement, and the role of housing and habitat in later life.
Clary Krekula is Professor of social work, at the Department of Social Work, Linnaeus University. Her research focuses on critical age studies, ageing from an intersectional perspective, and time and temporality. From these perspectives, she has brought attention to women’s embodied ageing, to age normalities, as well as temporal regimes in work organisations.
Patricia Vendramin is Professor of Sociology at UCLouvain University. She is head of the open faculty of economic and social science and holder of the Chaire Travail-Université. Her research areas include working conditions and ageing.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes
Book Subtitle: A Life Course perspective
Editors: Nathalie Burnay, Jim Ogg, Clary Krekula, Patricia Vendramin
Series Title: Life Course Research and Social Policies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11272-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11271-3Published: 11 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11274-4Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11272-0Published: 09 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-7776
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 214
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Life course, Labor Economics, Aging, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Work