The future for older workers : : New perspectives / / ed. by Wendy Loretto, Sarah Vickerstaff, Philip J. White.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Beatty, Christina,; Casey, Bernard,; Danson, Mike,; Fothergill, Steve,; Grattan, Patrick,; Griffiths, Amanda,; Hirsch, Donald,; Loretto, Wendy,; Macnicol, John,; Maltby, Tony,; Phillipson, Chris,; Vickerstaff, Sarah,; Ward, Sue,; White, Phil,
• HerausgeberIn: Loretto, Wendy,; Vickerstaff, Sarah,; White, Philip J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Glossary of UK-based institutions and programmes
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Older workers in the labour market: the demographic context
• The American experience of age discrimination legislation
• The employment of older people: can we learn from Japan?
• Moving older people into jobs: Incapacity Benefit, Labour’s reforms and the job shortfall in the UK regions
• Women’s knowledge of, and attitudes to, pensions
• Sustaining working lives: the challenge of retention
• Healthy work for older workers: work design and management factors
• Flexible work and older workers
• The employability of older workers: what works?
• Is extending working life possible? Research and policy issues
• The future for older workers: opportunities and constraints
• Index