Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces.  The book examines: how society operates in and through age, and how this informs the very existence of organizations;age-organization regimes, age-organization boundaries, and the relationship between organizations and death, and post-deaththe importance of memory, forgetting and rememorizing in re-thinking the authors’ and others’ earlier worktensions between seeing age in terms of later life and seeing age as pervasive social relations. Enriched with insights from the authors’ lived experiences, Age at Work is a major and timely intervention in studies of age, work, care and organizations. Ideal for students of Sociology, Organizations and Management, Social Policy, Gerontology, Health and Social Care, and Social Work.
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Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces.
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Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. Forgetting and Remembering Age: From Invisibility to Recognition Part 2: Society, Age and Organizations 2. Age in Society: Hegemony, Contingency and Intersectionality with Richard Howson 3. Society in Age: Hegemony, Historicity and Knowledge with Richard Howson Part 3: Age-Organization Regimes 4. The Making of Organizations: Contexts, Forms and Aims with Charlotta Niemistö 5. The Doing of Organizations: Structures, Processes and Talk with Charlotta Niemistö Part 4: Age-Organization Boundaries 6. Age, Organizations and Boundaries: An Overview 7. Age at Work: Autobiographical Reflections on Age-Organization Boundaries and Ambiguities 8. Living Afterlife: Age-Organization Boundaries in Practice 9. The Final Boundary?: Organization(s) and Organizing of Death 10. The Power of Absence: The Organization(s) and Organizing of Post-Death 11. Concluding: Another Ambiguous Boundary References
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We′ve all been told, "Too old for this, too young for that." In this masterly study Hearn and Parkin show how organizations organize human beings into categories. Calendars, chronologies and "ticking clocks" mobilize to tell us what we are and who we are becoming. Birth and death are certainties, but age and ageing are where power meets opinion.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526427724
Publisert
2020-12-02
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
580 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Biographical note

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; and Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa. Wendy Parkin is a retired Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Social Work, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Social Worker. After retirement, she was involved in patient engagement at both primary health care level and strategic Clinical Commissioning Group level.