The future for older workers
New perspectives
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
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The future for older workers
New perspectives
About this book
Across the world governments in mature industrial and post-industrial economies are concerned about the ageing population. Dealing directly and exclusively with the issue of older workers, this book brings together up-to-the-minute research findings by many of the leading researchers and writers in the field.
The duration and quality of working lives and the timing and circustances of retirement are of growing concern, especially in those cases where employers' demands and imperatives clash with employees' wishes. The contributions in this volume focus upon various measures taken by the state and employers to foster the employment of older workers in Britain, mainland Europe, the US and Japan. The authors address key issues that will influence public policy, exploring what workers over 50 want, the impact of the ageing workforce on employer policies and the implications for governments in promoting and supporting extended working lives.
The book is aimed at academics, students, policy makers and other professionals (such as training managers, HR professionals and trade unionists) interested in contemporary issues within social policy, the sociology of ageing, and human resource and diversity management. It wil also be of interest to older workers themselves.
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Table of contents
- The future for olderworkers
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary of UK-based institutionsand programmes
- Notes on contributors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Older workers in the labour market: the demographic context
- 3. The American experience of age discrimination legislation
- 4. The employment of older people:can we learn from Japan?
- 5. Moving older people into jobs:Incapacity Benefit, Labour’s reforms and the job shortfall in the UK regions
- 6. Women’s knowledge of, and attitudes to, pensions
- 7. Sustaining working lives: the challenge of retention
- 8. Healthy work for older workers: work design and management factors
- 9. Flexible work and older workers
- 10. The employability of older workers: what works?
- 11. Is extending working life possible? Research and policy issues
- 12. The future for older workers:opportunities and constraints
- Index