Working through Ageing
Experiencing Growing Up and Older at Work
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Published:30th Sep '25
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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.
"Pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of ageing in the workplace, revealing how ageing is actively done in relation with and through our colleagues, teams, and institutions. Thoughtful, rigorous, and deeply human, this is a vital and timely contribution to scholarship on ageing, embodiment, and the social self", Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Oregon State University
“With enviable clarity, this book ensures we acquire the richest possible grasp of the paradoxical process of ageing in the workplace. Essential reading for everyone concerned with the interconnected vulnerabilities of the human condition”, Lynne Segal, author of Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing and Professor emerita of Birkbeck, University of London
ISBN: 9781529245813
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222 pages