Ageism in work and employment
By: edited by Ian Glover, Mohamed Branine.
Contributors: Glover, Ian.; Branine, Mohamed.; University of Stirling.
Series: Stirling management series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Age discrimination in employment -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Contains some updated papers from the international conference on Ageism, work and employment, held at Stirling University in July 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Introduction: the challenge of longer and healthier lives / Ian Glover and Mohamed Branine; Pt. II. The problem and its causes. 2. Ageism, early exit, and the rationality of age-based discrimination / Colin Duncan ; 3. 'Do not go gentle into that good night': some thoughts on paternalism, ageism, management and society / Ian Glover and Mohamed Branine ; 4. The plateaued manager: the anatomy of an ageist stereotype / Peter Herriot ; 5. Discrimination by age: the organizational response / Ann E. McGoldrick and James Arrowsmith ; 6. Is retirement sustainable? / Philip H. Bowers ; 7. Ageism without frontiers / Ian Glover; Pt. III. The experience and practice of age discrimination in employment. 8. Ageism in retailing: myth or reality? / Adelina Broadbridge ; 9. Ageism, young academics and the buffalo stance / Karen Rodham (née Gadd) ; 10 Ageism and arm's length management: the voice of experience / David Jenkins, interviewed by Ian Glover ; 11. Anti-ageist legislation: the Australian experience / Jenny Hamilton ; 12. Old enough to know better: age stereotypes in New Zealand / Darren J. Smith ; 13. Ageism and work in the EU: a comparative review of corporate innovation and practice / David Parsons and Lesley Mayne ; 14. Ageism in the 'Quarter Acre, Pavlova Paradise': will she be right? / Graham Elkin; Pt. IV. Remedies and prospects. 15. Older workers and the cult of youth: ageism in public policy / Philip Taylor ; 16. Fitness for work: the effects of ageing and the benefits of exercise / Alan Nichols and Wendy Evangelisti ; 17. Ageism and unemployment: practical remedies from secondment programmes in small and medium-sized enterprises / Colin Bottomley ; 18. Managing the third age workforce: a review and agenda for research / Christine Tillsley and Philip Taylor; Pt. V. Conclusion. 19. Therefore get wisdom / Ian Glover and Mohamed Branine; Index.