Age at Work

Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing

AvJeff Hearn,Wendy Parkin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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.

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-death
the importance of memory, forgetting and rememorizing in re-thinking the authors’ and others’ earlier work
tensions 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-02
Mått:170 x 242 x 18 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781526427724

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Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1: Setting the Scene1. Forgetting and Remembering Age: From Invisibility to RecognitionPart 2: Society, Age and Organizations2. Age in Society: Hegemony, Contingency and Intersectionality with Richard Howson3. Society in Age: Hegemony, Historicity and Knowledge with Richard HowsonPart 3: Age-Organization Regimes4. The Making of Organizations: Contexts, Forms and Aims with Charlotta Niemistö5. The Doing of Organizations: Structures, Processes and Talk with Charlotta NiemistöPart 4: Age-Organization Boundaries6. Age, Organizations and Boundaries: An Overview7. Age at Work: Autobiographical Reflections on Age-Organization Boundaries and Ambiguities8. Living Afterlife: Age-Organization Boundaries in Practice9. The Final Boundary?: Organization(s) and Organizing of Death10. The Power of Absence: The Organization(s) and Organizing of Post-Death11. Concluding: Another Ambiguous BoundaryReferences