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.

This book is open access which means that you have free and unlimited access 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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Gender, Transitions and Turning Points: The Life Course and Older Workers' Trajectories in Different US Occupations.- Chapter 3. The Loss of Work Motivation Among Older Male Employees: Critical Perspectives to Policies Aimed at Extending Working Life in Finland.- Chapter 4. Transitions into Precarity at Work Among Older Men in the Metal Industry in Portugal and Sweden.- Chapter 5. Older Workers and Their Relations to the Labour Market in Albania.- Chapter 6. Attitudes Towards Older People in the Labour Market and in Politics: A Cross-National Comparison.- Chapter 7. Sustainable Work in an Ageing Perspective, Gender and Working Life Course.- Chapter 8. Working Conditions and Retirement Preferences: The Role of Health and Subjective Age as Mediating Variables in the Association of Poor Job Quality with Early Retirement.- Chapter 9. Health, Working Conditions and Retirement.- Chapter 10. From Early Retirement to Extending Working Life: Institutionalisation and Standardization at the End of Career in Belgium.- Chapter 11. Social Exclusion in Later Life, Evidence from the European Social Survey.