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Age and changes in work
— causes and contrasts | | Author(s) | Victor W Marshall, Joanne Gard Marshall |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol XXV, no 2, Fall 1999 |
| Pages | pp 46-68 |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Retirement policy ; Conditions of employment ; Iron and steel industries ; Clothing and footwear industries ; Power industries ; Insurance ; Comparison ; Canada ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Companies' personnel policies may be influenced by factors such as changing demographics, global economic changes, technological change, and ideologies governing corporate restructuring. Alternatively, these factors may have little direct influence on company policy. In this article, five Canadian case studies, two of them matched in the US, are drawn upon to investigate company policies influencing the lives of older workers and factors associated with exit from employment. Cases cover the insurance industry, the clothing industry, steel manufacture, telecommunications, gas transmission, and petrochemicals. Formal policy attention to demographic change or the ageing workforce was rare in the companies studied. However, company policies did have important consequences for their older workers and for age relations in the company. Corporate "downsizing" was prevalent, but companies differed in their approaches with differing outcomes for working life and a firm's demographic structure. While demographic, technological or economic factors can have important influences on company policies affecting older workers, none of these factors is highly deterministic in its effects. Policy decisions at the company level take these factors into account in widely differ. |
| Accession Number | CPA-000522210 A |
| Classmark | GC: G5: WKA: XCN: XFD: XJ: WP: 48: 7S: 7T |
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