Scrap iron and old stagers
Subtitle: constructions of old age in unemployment
By: Florentine Maier
Contributors: Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich
Series: Sprache im Kontext -- Bd. 33; Sprache im Kontext -- Bd. 33.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9783631592885
Subjects: Beschäftigungspolitik; Beratungsgespräch; Unemployed; Älterer Arbeitsloser; Sprachgebrauch; Economic conditions; Older people; Employment; Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich
Description: "When older workers become unemployed, they face considerable obstacles in the labour market. Often they are depicted as too old to work but too young to retire. This study is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork at the Public Employment Service Austria (AMS)."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-282).

This study won the 2009 Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation Award and the 2008 Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.