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Author Macnicol, John

Title Age discrimination : an historical and contemporary analysis / John Macnicol
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 308 pages)
Contents List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- pt. 1. AGeism and age discrimination -- 1. Analysing ageism and age discrimination -- 2. Justice between generations -- pt. 2. The current revival of interest in Britain -- 3. New labour and age discrimination -- pt. 3. Retirement, health status and work-disability -- 4. Health status and old age -- 5. From the late nineteenth century to the 1940s -- 6. The 1950s and 1960s in Britain -- 7. The recent debate -- pt. 4. America's Age Discrimination in Employment Act -- 8. The age discrimination debate, from the 1920s to 1967 -- 9. From 1967 to the present -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Age discrimination is a highly topical issue in all industrialised societies, against a background of concerns about shortening working lives and ageing populations in the future. Based upon detailed research, and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this unique study traces the history of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA since the 1930s. It critically analyses the concepts of ageism in social relations and age discrimination in employment. Case-studies on generational equity and health care rationing by age are followed by an analysis of the British government's initiatives against age discrimination in employment. The book then truces in detail the history of the debate on health status and old age, addressing the question of whether working capacity has improved sufficiently to justify calls to delay retirement and extend working lives. It concludes with a detailed examination of the origins and subsequent working of the USA's 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ageism -- Great Britain -- History
Ageism -- United States -- History
Age discrimination in employment -- Great Britain -- History
Age discrimination in employment -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Age discrimination in employment
Ageism
Diskriminierung
Alter
Discriminatie (sociologie)
Leeftijdsgrenzen.
Werkgelegenheidsbeleid.
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107321908
1107321905
9780511550560
0511550561
9781107316515
1107316510