Blossfeld / Buchholz / Hofäcker Globalization, Uncertainty and Late Careers in Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-134-22368-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These profound changes have had significant consequences for individual careers of men and women both during and after their employment career. This impressive new collection focuses on the effects of the globalization process on late-midlife workers and the exit from employment – a relationship that has up to now mostly been neglected in social science literature on aging and employment.

The research documented within these pages poses several important questions:

* Has globalization produced fundamental shifts in late-midlife workers’ labor market participation and late careers?
* What transformations in old age career mobility can we observe?
* How are these transformations filtered by different national institutional settings?

With an impressive array of contributions, this volume will interest students and academics involved in the study of sociology, welfare and globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blossfeld, Hans-Peter

Buchholz, Sandra

Hofäcker, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Late Careers and Retirement in Times of Accelerating Social Change: An Introduction 2. Late Careers and Retirement in International Comparison 3. Public Attitudes to Retirement in Times of Accelerating Social Change 4. Late Careers and Retirement in Germany 5. Late Careers and Retirement in the Netherlands 6. Late Careers and Retirement in Sweden 7. Late Careers and Retirement in Denmark 8. Late Careers and Retirement in Norway 9. Late Careers and Retirement in Hungary 10. Late Careers and Retirement in Estonia 11. Late Careers and Retirement in the Czech Republic 12. Late Careers and Retirement in Poland 13. Late Careers and Retirement in Slovenia 14. Late Careers and Retirement in Great Britain 15. Late Careers and Retirement in Canada 16. Late Careers and Retirement in the United States 17. Late Careers and Retirement in Italy 18. Late Careers and Retirement in Spain 19. Late Careers and Retirement in Times of Accelerating Social Change: Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Hans-Peter Blossfield is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Sandra Buchholz is a Researcher in Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Dirk Hofäcker is a Researcher in Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany.