Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Nathalie Burnay, Jim Ogg, Clary Krekula, Patricia Vendramin

   Pages 1-17Open Access

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3. Gender, Transitions and Turning Points: The Life Course and Older Workers’ Trajectories in Different US Occupations

   • Áine Ní Léime, Debra Street

   Pages 19-44Open Access

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4. The Loss of Work Motivation Among Older Male Employees: Critical Perspectives to Policies Aimed at Extending Working Life in Finland

   • Ilkka Pietilä, Hanna Ojala

   Pages 45-60Open Access

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5. Transitions into Precarity at Work Among Older Men in the Metal Industry in Portugal and Sweden

   • Rita Borges Neves, Clary Krekula

   Pages 61-76Open Access

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6. Older Workers and Their Relations to the Labour Market in Albania

   • Merita Vaso Xhumari

   Pages 77-97Open Access

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7. Attitudes Towards Older People in the Labour Market and in Politics: A Cross-National Comparison

   • Renata Siemieńska

   Pages 99-114Open Access

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8. Sustainable Work in an Ageing Perspective, Gender and Working Life Course

   • Patricia Vendramin

   Pages 115-132Open Access

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9. 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

   • Nadia Steiber, Barbara Haas

   Pages 133-160Open Access

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10. Health, Working Conditions and Retirement

    • Chiara Ardito, Maria Fleischmann

    Pages 161-176Open Access

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11. From Early Retirement to Extending Working Life: Institutionalisation and Standardization at the End of Career in Belgium

    • Nathalie Burnay, Jean-Paul Sanderson

    Pages 177-190Open Access

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12. Social Exclusion in Later Life, Evidence from the European Social Survey

    • Paula C. Albuquerque, Elsa Fontainha

    Pages 191-209Open Access

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13. Back Matter

    Pages 211-214

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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.

• Life course
• Active aging
• Inequalities
• Working conditions
• Critical gerontology
• Social exclusion
• Retirement preferences
• Early retirement
• Retirement timing
• Extending working life
• Manual labour
• Loss of work motivation
• Disability benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Older employees
• Discrimination of older workers
• Restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures
• Open Access

• Transitions Institute, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

  Nathalie Burnay

• CNAV, Unité de Recherche sur le Vieillissement, Paris, France

  Jim Ogg

• Social Work Department, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

  Clary Krekula

• Iacchos-Cirtes, UCLouvain University, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  Patricia Vendramin

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.

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