Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes A Life Course perspective

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Series: Life Course Research and Social Policies
• Subjects: Age groups: the elderly; Labour economics; Social issues & processes; Sociology: work & labour; Sociology; Active aging; Critical gerontology; Disability benefits; Discrimination of older workers; Early retirement; Extending working life; Inequalities; Life course; Loss of work motivation; Manual labour; Older employees; Restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures; Retirement benefits; Retirement preferences; Retirement timing; Social exclusion; Working conditions
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• ISBN: 978-3-031-11272-0; 9783031112720
• Access: Open Access

This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong empirical evidence from different contexts, the impact of different life course trajectories on the risks and the opportunities at the end of career are demonstrated. The organisation of workplace and institutional frameworks which reinforce inequalities are also presented. As such the book is an essential reading for students, academics and policy makers who seek to understand how exclusion processes operate to the disadvantage of older workers in the labour market.