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Precarity and ageing : understanding insecurity and risk in later life
- Title
- Precarity and ageing : understanding insecurity and risk in later life / edited by Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson and Richard A. Settersten Jr.
- Publication
- Bristol : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2021.
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- Description
- xii, 258 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
- Summary
- This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people.
- Series Statement
- Ageing in a global context
- Uniform Title
- Ageing in a global context.
- Alternative Title
- Precarity and aging
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Precarity and ageing: new perspectives for social gerontology / Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson and Richard A. Settersten Jr -- PART I: Life course perspectives on precarity. How life course dynamics matter for precarity in later life / Richard A. Settersten Jr ; Precarious life, human development and the life course: critical intersections / Stephen Katz -- PART II: Precarity across situations. Rereading frailty through a lens of precarity: an explication of politics and the human condition of vulnerability / Amanda Grenier ; Older workers and ontological precarity: between precarious employment, precarious welfare and precarious households / David Lain, Laura Airey, Wendy Loretto and Sarah Vickerstaff ; Precarity, migration, and aging / Karen Kobayashi and Mushira Mohsin Khan ; A framework to identify precarity in the social sciences: insights from qualitative research / Elena Portacolone -- PART III: Austerity, care and social responses to precarity. Reconstructing dependency: precarity, precariousness and care in old age / Michael Fine ; From precarious employment to precarious retirement: neoliberal health and long-term care in the United States / Larry Polivka and Baozhen Luo ; Austerity and precarity: individual and collective agency in later life / Chris Phillipson -- Conclusion: precarity and ageing in the 21st century / Chris Phillipson, Amanda Grenier and Richard A. Settersten Jr.
- ISBN
- 9781447340867
- 1447340868
- 9781447340850 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781447340881 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781447340874 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1223065575
- 1223065575
- SCSB-14543657
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries