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No place for old women
— a critical inquiry into age in later working life | | Author(s) | Ann Therese Lotherington, Aud Obstfelder, Susan Halford |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 37, no 6, July 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1156-1178 |
| Source | cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Older women ; Nurses ; Employment of older people ; Women's movement ; Cinema [media] ; Qualitative Studies ; Norway. |
| Annotation | Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform participation by older workers in the labour market, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article, the authors argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations, and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of age. To see things differently, and to see different things, the authors offer a novel analytical synthesis that combines insights from post-foundational feminist theory, the 2007 film No Country for Old Men, and an empirical study of older nurses working in the Norwegian public health-care system. Their aim is to provide the foundations for alternative interventions in the world of work that might underpin a more sustainable future for older workers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170616203 A |
| Classmark | BD: QTE: GC: SH:TM8: UL: 3DP: 76N |
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