Working through Ageing, livre ebook

• Provides a critical overview of current age and employment debates, reframing ageing as an organizational and organizing phenomenon;

• Offers fresh empirical insights into growing up and growing older at work;

• Combines groundbreaking theory with lived experience to offer a new perspective on ageing in the workplace.

Growing up and older at work is something we all experience, yet it remains surprisingly overlooked and under theorized in management and organization studies.

In this groundbreaking book, Kathleen Riach draws on a 10 year longitudinal study to offer fresh theoretical and empirical insights into how ageing is experienced in the workplace.

Introducing a new phenomenological theory of ageing at work, the book examines how individuals negotiate age-biased workplace cultures and adapt to their changing bodies within the context of financial capitalism. It reveals that ageing at work is not simply about demographic change or ageist stereotypes, but is an ongoing process that involves balancing professional expectations, the life course, and the self.

Preface: Ageing, Ageing All Around…

1. Constellations of Organizational Ageing: Controlled, Commodified, Conferred

2. Towards a Phenomenology of Working Through Ageing

3. Figuring-In Conversations About Working Through Ageing

4. Disclosing Ageing: Revealing the World in Working Relations

5. Grasping Ageing: Working Through the Ageing Self

6. Anchoring Ageing: Chronochoreography in Space and Setting

7. Mottling: Surfacing a Generative Experience of Working Through Ageing

Appendix: Undertaking Longitudinal Qualitative Research Through a Phenomenological Lens