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Work and retirement in the twenty-first century — integrating issues of diversity and globalization
Author(s)	Toni Calasanti
Journal title	Ageing International, vol 27, no 3, Summer 2002
Pages	pp 3-20
Keywords	Retirement ; Employment of older people ; Conditions of employment ; Economics.
Annotation	The author uses this essay to outline a framework for studying work and retirement that takes into account the structural contexts in which individuals make their decisions about economic activities in later life. This approach focuses on power relations in a global context, and we are asked to consider relationships among advantaged and disadvantaged groups within and across national boundaries. Thus, we are asked to consider the impacts of global changes on local economies and workers, the welfare state, and intersecting power relations based on such characteristics as gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, religion and sexuality. Not all these power relations are illustrated, rather, examples are given of some ways in which they might influence individual patterns of work and retirement, and of how these influence the concepts of work and retirement themselves. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-021111201 A
Classmark	G3: GC: WKA: W
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