Globalization, Uncertainty and Late Careers in Society (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415482089 ISBN 13: 9780415482080

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These profound changes have had significant consequences for individual careers of men and women both during and after their employment career. This impressive new collection focuses on the effects of the globalization process on late-midlife workers and the exit from employment – a relationship that has up to now mostly been neglected in social science literature on aging and employment.

The research documented within these pages poses several important questions:

* Has globalization produced fundamental shifts in late-midlife workers’ labor market participation and late careers?
* What transformations in old age career mobility can we observe?
* How are these transformations filtered by different national institutional settings?

With an impressive array of contributions, this volume will interest students and academics involved in the study of sociology, welfare and globalization.

About this title

About the Author:

Hans-Peter Blossfield is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Sandra Buchholz is a Researcher in Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Dirk Hofäcker is a Researcher in Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415482089
• ISBN 13: 9780415482080
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Blossfeld Hans-Peter, Buchholz Sandra, Hofäcker Dirk