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Rethinking risk and ageing
— extending working lives | | Author(s) | Jason L Powell, Paul Taylor |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Society, vol 15, no 4, October 2016 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2016 |
| Pages | pp 637-645 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/sps |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Postponement [retirement] ; Retirement age ; Pensions ; Social policy ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | This paper critically examines the development of recent policy and theoretical issues concerning the extension of working lives for older people in the UK. It grounds the analysis in ideas from the 'risk society' thesis (Beck, 1992), to explore how the matrix of population ageing, job and pension changes impinge on the shifting emphasis on increasing the retirement age, coupled with individualising pensions from state provision to a focus on self-responsibility, via private provision. The neo-liberal repositioning of extending work and pension policy has implications for the management of risk for older people in the UK. This paper explores the impact of population ageing on government ideas associated with social policy relating to extending working lives. It concludes with an assessment on the lessons policy makers and social policy analysts can learn from such shifts, and the impact on the social construction of age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170106210 A |
| Classmark | GC: G5H: G5A: JJ: TM2: 8 |
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