Organizing age
Age is the silent shaper of work organizations and their human resource practices. It has become a potent feature of how society is structured and how it views itself. Age assumptions mould the behaviours of young and old alike, and are used as political tools by policy makers and managers. Organizing Age asks the perennial question - can age ever not matter? Drawing on range of social scientific and popular writings, this book casts a critical eye over the social construction and politicizatio…
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- Full title :Organizing age / Stephen Fineman.
Summary
Age is the silent shaper of work organizations and their human resource practices. It has become a potent feature of how society is structured and how it views itself. Age assumptions mould the behaviours of young and old alike, and are used as political tools by policy makers and managers. Organizing Age asks the perennial question - can age ever not matter? Drawing on range of social scientific and popular writings, this book casts a critical eye over the social construction and politicization of age in and beyond organizations. Amongst other topics, it discusses: the historical roots of age.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (175 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191617805, 0191617806, 9780191806704, 0191806706
- oclc:ocn760886988
- LC Classification:HD6279
- Dewey Decimal:302.35
Table of Contents
Why age? -- Age work -- Generations -- Ageism -- Capturing age cohorts -- Retirement -- A new age?
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