Precarity and Ageing

Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvAmanda Grenier,Chris Phillipson,Richard A. Settersten Jr.,Richard A. Settersten Jr

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This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people. Drawing together insights from leading voices across a range of disciplines, the book underscores the pressing need to address inequality across the life course and into later life.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-01-01
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAgeing in a Global Context
Antal sidor224
FörlagPolicy Press
ISBN9781447340850

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Amanda Grenier is Professor in Health Aging and Society, the Gilbrea Chair in Aging and Mental Health, and the Director of the Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging at McMaster University.Chris Phillipson is Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester. He has published a number of general books in the field of ageing as well as a number of papers relating to inequality and social exclusion.Richard A. Settersten Jr., PhD, is Barbara Knudson Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences and Head of the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences at Oregon State University.

Precarity and ageing: New perspectives for social gerontology ~ Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson and Rick Settersten Jr.;How life course dynamics matter for precarity in later life? ~ Rick Settersten Jr.;Precarious life, human development and the life course: critical intersections ~ Stephen Katz;Re-reading frailty through a lens of precarity: an explication of politics and the human condition of vulnerability ~ Amanda Grenier;Older workers and ontological precarity: between precarious employment, precarious welfare and precarious households ~ David Lain, Laura Airey, Wendy Loretto, Sarah Vickerstaff;Precarity, migration, and aging ~ Karen Kobayashi and Mushira Mohsin Khan;A framework to identify precarity in the social sciences: insights from qualitative research with older people ~ Elena Portacolone;Reconstructing dependency: precarity, precariousness and care in old age ~ Michael Fine;From precarious employment to precarious retirement: neoliberal health and long-term care in the United States ~ Larry Polivka and Baozhen Luo;Austerity and precarity: individual and collective agency in later life ~ Chris Phillipson;Precarity and ageing in the twenty-first century ~ Chris Phillipson, Amanda Grenier and Rick Settersten Jr..