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  • Retirement on the Line

    Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory

    by Caitrin Lynch ...
    In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes needles, stainless steel tubing and pipes, and custom fabricated parts. As part of its unusual ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Juki Girls, Good Girls

    Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry

    by Caitrin Lynch ...
    When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"—female garment workers already established in the urban sector—as vulgar and deracinated, instead ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Transitions and Transformations

    Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

    Edited by Caitrin Lynch, Jason Danely ...
    Series Book 1 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce

    Edited by E. Parry, S. Tyson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Unique in the multiple approaches that it encompasses, this book includes discussions of both older and younger workers, employer and employee perspectives, generational and age diversity and international comparisons. It includes both conceptual argument and empirical research in order to provide insights into this important area. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Future Workplace Experience: 10 Rules For Mastering Disruption in Recruiting and Engaging Employees

    by Jeanne Meister, Kevin J. Mulcahy ...
    Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal WinnerDISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. THE GIG ECONOMY. BREADWINNER MOMS. DATA-DRIVEN RECRUITING. PERSONALIZED LEARNING.In a business landscape rocked by constant change and turmoil, companies like Airbnb, Cisco, GE Digital, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are reinventing the future of work. What is it that makes these companies so different? They’re strategic, they’re ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Refusal of Work

    The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

    by David Frayne ...
    Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.In this thought ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • What's Worth Knowing

    by Wendy Lustbader ...
    Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe

    An Economic and Social Policy Perspective

    by Lans Bovenberg, Asghar Zaidi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD

    Essays in Macro-Economic History

    by Angus Maddison ...
    This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Reconstructing Retirement

    Work and Welfare in the UK and USA

    by David Dr Lain ...
    Retirement is being ‘reconstructed’, with the UK following the US path of abolishing mandatory retirement and increasing state pension ages. This timely book assesses prospects for work and retirement at age 65-plus in the UK and US.Part 1 explores the shifting ‘policy logics’ in both countries that increase both the need and opportunities to work past age 65. Part 2 presents an original ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada:

    by Bob Barnetson ...
    Series series Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
    Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Paid Work Beyond Pension Age

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Simone Scherger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries, examining the contexts of this development and the consequences of the shifting relationship between work and retirement. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD