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Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life : Cross-National Perspectives /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: Gendering later life work: empirical, theoretical and policy issues
- 1. The empirical landscape of extended working lives
- Introduction
- Simple problems, simple solutions?
- Live longer, work longer
- Balancing work and families
- Working longer, but in which kinds of jobs?
- Conclusion
- 2. Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda
- Introduction
- A narrow focus on individuals
- The limiting homogeneous narration of the category 'older people'
- Interactive societal processes that affect the debate on an extended working life
- A simplified view of work
- Four steps towards a new research agenda
- Conclusion
- 3. Gender perspectives on extended working life policies
- Introduction
- International policy actors and extended working life
- Gender critique of generic work life policies
- Overview of countries and policies
- Pension policies and reforms
- Work-life balance employment policies: elder care and childcare
- Conclusion
- Part Two: Extended working life in seven OECD countries
- 4. The Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives: a gender perspective
- Introduction
- Government policy discourses promoting extended working lives
- Neoliberal policies of employment and 'welfare' rationalisation across the life course
- Cascading trajectories of 'de-accumulation'
- Conclusion: countervailing responses and public policy directions
- 5. Extended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition
- Introduction
- The institutional context of extending working lives.Welfare state reforms relevant to extending the working lives of men and women
- Extended working lives?
- Conclusion
- 6. Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland
- Introduction
- Women's labour market participation
- Ireland: pension system and reforms
- Ireland: employment reforms for older workers
- Implications of reforms in the context of recession: precarious employment and gender
- Conclusion
- 7. Ageing and older workers in Portugal: a gender-sensitive approach
- Introduction
- Extending working lives and policy reforms in Portugal
- Anti-discrimination legislation and intersectional issues: age, gender, disability
- What do we know about gender and age in Portugal: distinctive patterns, processes and critical issues
- The current debate and future directions for policy and research: extended working life and gender
- 8. Sweden: an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations
- Introduction
- A gender-segregated labour market and an age-blind gender policy
- The Swedish pension system
- Retirement patterns
- Identified obstacles against an extended working life
- Starting point of the debate: a homogenisation of older people as a group
- Concluding discussion
- 9. The United Kingdom
- a new moral imperative: live longer, work longer
- Introduction
- Women in the labour market
- Age-related policy changes
- UK pensions system
- Family and caring-related policies
- Flexible employment and later-life working
- Discussion
- 10. Is 70 the new 60? Extending American women's and men's working lives
- Introduction
- Older workers in the US
- The US retirement income system
- Changes to Social Security, pension structures and retirement ages
- Social Security and extending working lives
- Private sector pensions.Policies associated with work-family balance and anti-age discrimination
- Discussion
- Part Three:Conclusion
- 11. Gendered and extended work: research and policy needs for work in later life
- Introduction
- Countries' experiences of extended working life
- Insights from a comparative assessment of extended working life
- Research agenda
- Policy agenda
- Index.