Research Catalog

Title

Part-time employment for the low-income elderly : experiences from the field / by Leslie Alexander and Lenard W. Kaye.

Author

Alexander, Leslie

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kaye, Lenard W.

Description

xviii, 182 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Based on information collected from a variety of data sources (surveys, interviews, case-record data) in the Greater Philadelphia area between 1989 and 1990.

Series Statement

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1016. Issues in aging ; v. 6

Uniform Title

• Garland reference library of social science v. 1016.
• Garland reference library of social science. Issues in aging v. 6.

Subject

• Older people > Employment > United States
• Part-time employment > United States

Genre/Form

• case study.
• bibliography.
• étude de cas.
• bibliographie.
• estudio de casos.
• bibliografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Part-Time Work: Background and Interpretive Framework -- Ch. 3. Our Approach to Learning about Low-Income Older Adults Who Worked Part-Time -- Ch. 4. Who Were the Low-Income Older Part-Timers? -- Ch. 5. The Previous Work Careers of Part-Time and Unemployed Elders -- Ch. 6. Job-Placement Services and the Older Worker -- Ch. 7. The Structural Characteristics of Part-Time Work -- Ch. 8. The Functional Characteristics of Part-Time Work -- Ch. 9. Satisfaction with Part-Time Employment -- Ch. 10. Discrimination in the Workplace -- Ch. 11. Work and Retirement: Attitudes, Preferences, and Expectations -- Ch. 12. The Special Case of the Unemployed -- Ch. 13. The Special Case of the Full-Time Employed -- Ch. 14. Conclusions and Recommendations.

ISBN

0815319762 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96035889^

OCLC

• 35558987
• SCSB-11184512

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library