Challenges of Active Ageing

Simonetta Manfredi is Professor of Equality and Diversity Management and Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published and led several externally funded projects focusing on age discrimination and retirement policies, gender and careers and work-life balance. Lucy Vickers is Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Lucy’s main research area is the protection of human rights within the workplace and aspects of equality law. She has written extensively on issues relating to religious discrimination and age discrimination at work. 

Part 1 – The Legal Framework.- Chapter 1 The
CJEU and age discrimination: addressing the double bind for age equality (Professor
Frank Hendrickx).- Chapter 2 A freedom under supervision – the EU Court and
compulsory retirement age (Alvaro Oliveira).- Part 2 – Deregulation of
retirement.- Chapter 3 Retirement and the
pension crisis (Jo Grady).-  Chapter 4 Meeting
the challenges of active ageing in the UK: Is the abolition of mandatory retirement
the answer?  A case study of the approach
of retirement in the UK (Simonetta Manfredi and Lucy Vickers).- Part 3 –
The challenges of extending working lives.-
Chapter 5 Intersectionality of age and gender in labour law (Jenny Julen
Votinius).- Chapter 6 Strategic challenges for social partners – a case study
on the Italian experience (Luciana Guaglianone and Fabio Ravelli).- Chapter 7 Older
workers in the nursing profession: Will they stay or will they go? (Nicola
Johnson and Simonetta Manfredi).- Chapter 8 Emerging options for extending
working lives: results of a Delphi study (Alysia Blackham).- Part 4 –
Older Workers perspectives on extending working lives.- Chapter 9 Extended working lives: what do older employees want? (Wendy
Loretto).- Chapter 10 Work and careers: perspectives from knowledge workers
aged 48-58 (Karen Handley and Birgit den Outer).- Chapter 11 Function,
flexibility and responsibility – differences in former professional jobs and
post-retirement activities among retirees in Germany (Leena Pundt, Jurgen Dell,
Kenneth S Shultz and Ulrike Fasbender).- Part 5 – Extending Working
lives in practice.- Chapter 12 Managing older
workers in a local authority: The case of Oxford City Council (Bob Price).- Chapter
13 What scope for an Employer justified retirement age? A view from practice (Saphieh
Ashtiany).- Chapter 14 Extending working lives – a trade union perspective (Sally
Brett).- Chapter 15 ‘Changing Step’: The transition from the Regular Army to
civilian life and work (Vincent Connelly).- Bibliography.