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No place for old women: a critical inquiry into age in later working life

No place for old women: a critical inquiry into age in later working life
No place for old women: a critical inquiry into age in later working life
Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we 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, we 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. Our aim is to provide the foundations for alternative interventions in the world of work that might underpin a more sustainable future for older workers.
ageing, organisations, gender, feminist theory, film
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Lotherington, Ann Therese
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Obstfelder, Aud
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Halford, Susan
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Lotherington, Ann Therese
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Lotherington, Ann Therese, Obstfelder, Aud and Halford, Susan (2016) No place for old women: a critical inquiry into age in later working life. Ageing & Society, 1-23. (doi:10.1017/S0144686X16000064).

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Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we 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, we 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. Our aim is to provide the foundations for alternative interventions in the world of work that might underpin a more sustainable future for older workers.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 January 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 February 2016
Keywords: ageing, organisations, gender, feminist theory, film
Organisations: Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

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Local EPrints ID: 390319
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/390319
PURE UUID: a33382a3-e858-4d62-82bd-f2cbc834de57

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Date deposited: 23 Mar 2016 16:57
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 23:15

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Author: Ann Therese Lotherington
Author: Aud Obstfelder
Author: Susan Halford

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