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Challenges of Active Ageing

Equality Law and the Workplace

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. The Development of the Law at EU Level

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. The Issue of Retirement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Retirement and the Pension Crisis

      • Jo Grady
      Pages 49-70
  4. The Challenges of Extending Working Lives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
    2. Active Ageing in Italy: Labour Market Perspectives and Access to Welfare

      • Luciana Guaglianone, Fabio Ravelli
      Pages 117-138
  5. The Perspectives of Workers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. Work and Careers: Narratives from Knowledge Workers Aged 48–58

      • Karen Handley, Birgit den Outer
      Pages 209-230
    3. Function, Flexibility, and Responsibility: Differences Between the Former Professional Job and Post-retirement Activities

      • Leena Pundt, Jürgen Deller, Kenneth S. Shultz, Ulrike Fasbender
      Pages 231-253
  6. The Perspective from Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
    2. BMW Group Case Study: Help a Workforce to Age

      • Martin Hall, Andrea Rathbone
      Pages 257-262

About this book

This edited collection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the ‘Active Ageing’ agenda to enable readers to consider the implications of this phenomenon for the law, the workplace, and for working lives from a holistic perspective. Challenges of Active Ageing brings together academics working throughout Europe from different disciplines including law, industrial relations, human resource management and occupational psychology to explore and debate the challenges of the ‘Active Ageing’ agenda for equality law and management practice. Also including shorter contributions from law, human resource management, trade union and other practitioners, this book aims to fully reflect how organizations can adjust their practices to respond to the challenge of an aging population and extended working lives. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Simonetta Manfredi, Lucy Vickers

About the editors

Simonetta Manfredi is Professor of Equality and Diversity Management and Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published and led several externally funded projects focusing on age discrimination and retirement policies, gender and careers and work-life balance.

Lucy Vickers is Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Lucy’s main research area is the protection of human rights within the workplace and aspects of equality law. She has written extensively on issues relating to religious discrimination and age discrimination at work. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Challenges of Active Ageing

  • Book Subtitle: Equality Law and the Workplace

  • Editors: Simonetta Manfredi, Lucy Vickers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53251-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53249-7Published: 09 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53251-0Published: 30 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 345

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sociology of Work

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