Older Workers in Transition

David Lain is Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies at Newcastle University. Sarah Vickerstaff is Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Kent. Mariska van der Horst is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Part I: Introducing Older Worker Job Transitions in a Neoliberal Era


1. Job Transitions in Older Age in an Era of Neoliberal Responsibilisation ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst


2. The Social Construction of Work and Retirement: Changing Transitions and ‘Work- endings’ ~ Chris Phillipson





Part II: European Experiences of Older Worker Transitions


3. Job Redeployment of Older Workers in UK Local Government ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst


4. Time, Precarisation and Age Normality: On Internal Job Mobility among Men in Manual Work in Sweden ~ Clary Krekula


5. Temporary Older Workers in Belgium as a Demonstration of a Paradoxical Situation ~ Nathalie Burnay


6. Attempted Transitions from Unemployment in Italy ~ Emma Garavaglia


7. Divorced Women Working Past Pension Age in Germany and the UK: The Long Shadow of the Female Homemaker Model~ Anna Hokema


8. Expectations of Transitions to Retirement in Ireland ~ Áine Ní Léime





Part III: Conclusions and Discussion


9. Retirement and Responsibilisation: Current Narratives about the End of Working Life ~ David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff and Mariska van der Horst