Age at Work: Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing
About this ebook
The book examines:
- how society operates in and through age, and how this informs the very existence of organizations;
- age-organization regimes, age-organization boundaries, and the relationship between organizations and death, and post-death
- the importance of memory, forgetting and rememorizing in re-thinking the authors’ and others’ earlier work
- tensions between seeing age in terms of later life and seeing age as pervasive social relations.
Enriched with insights from the authors’ lived experiences, Age at Work is a major and timely intervention in studies of age, work, care and organizations. Ideal for students of Sociology, Organizations and Management, Social Policy, Gerontology, Health and Social Care, and Social Work.
About the author
Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; and Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa.
Wendy Parkin is a retired Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Social Work, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Social Worker. After retirement, she was involved in patient engagement at both primary health care level and strategic Clinical Commissioning Group level.
