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Ageism and employment
— controversies, ambiguities and younger people's perceptions | | Author(s) | Wendy Loretto, Colin Duncan, Phil J White |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 20, part 3, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp 279-302 |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Ageism ; Young people ; Students ; Early retirement. |
| Annotation | The emergence and evolution of the concept of ageism in employment in the UK is traced. Such features are also challenged as being defective and undermining of efforts to eradicate age discrimination in employment. Also revealed is some loosening in recent years of the association of the term "ageism" with older employers. This latter observation informed the focus of the authors' empirical work, which examined the views of 460 Business Studies students concerning age and employment. A significant proportion had experienced ageism directly in employment. Most favoured the introduction of legislative protection against age discrimination, with blanket coverage irrespective of age. Though negative stereotypes regarding older workers were by no means uncommon among the sample, little firm evidence emerged of intergenerational tensions or resentment towards older people. The policy implications of these findings are considered, including the relative merits of weighting policy responses towards older employees. It is argued that initiatives restricted in this way, further constrained by commercial imperatives and macro-economic objectives, are likely to prove divisive and self-defeating as a means of combatting ageism. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000717211 A |
| Classmark | GC: B:TOB: SB: XN: G5M |
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