Age at Work

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.

• 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

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.