Work and Retirement - Stanley Parker

Work and Retirement

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-13890-9 (ISBN)
129,95 inkl. MwSt
World recession and widespread unemployment accentuated an existing trend – more people retiring from work early and living longer after doing so. First published in 1982, this provides a careful and critical examination of what we knew about retirement and discusses possible alternative answers to the various problems involved.
In the early 1980s world recession and widespread unemployment had accentuated an existing trend – more people retiring from work early and living longer after doing so. Some were adequately prepared for a life of well-earned ‘leisure’ in retirement, but too many were not. The policies of employers, unions and governments on retirement needed to be challenged in societies where work opportunities were collapsing but where leisure activities and values were not yet strong enough to take their place.

Originally published in 1982, Dr Parker, a sociologist, provides a careful and critical examination of what we knew about retirement and discusses possible alternative answers to the various problems involved at the time. The history of retirement is first considered, followed by a conceptual analysis of types of retirement. There are chapters on preparation for retirement, the capacity of older people to work, and on the varying experiences of retirement. Separate consideration is given to the question of work after retirement age and whether retirement is actually experienced as leisure. The concluding chapter examines various policy alternatives for dealing with the problems raised earlier in the book.

Work and Retirement was intended for students of industrial sociology and industrial psychology, for personnel and human resource professionals, for trade unionists and for all those who had an interest in understanding the developments in the field of retirement and the older working population. Now it can be read in its historical context.

Stanley Parker

Introduction. 1. A New Achievement and Problem 2. The Study of Retirement: Conceptual and Descriptive 3. Preparation for Retirement 4. The Capacity of Older People to Work 5. The Experience of Retirement 6. Work After Retirement Age 7. Retirement as Leisure? 8. Policy Alternatives. Bibliography. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-13890-4 / 1032138904
ISBN-13 978-1-032-13890-9 / 9781032138909
Zustand Neuware
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