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Aging has emerged as a major and urgent issue for individuals, organisations and governments of our time.
In this well-timed and comprehensive handbook, key international contributors to the field of study come together to create a definitive map of the subject. Framed by an authoritative introductory chapter, the SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society offers a critical overview of the most significant themes and topics, with discussions of current research, theoretical controversies and emerging issues, divided into sections covering:
Key Issues and Challenges; The Aging Workforce; Managing an Aging Workforce; Living in an Aging Society; Developing Public Policy
New Patterns of Late-Career Employment
New Patterns of Late-Career Employment
Introduction
A major tradition in career studies is the notion of the career as an age-related cycle. Levinson, Darrow, Klein, Levinson and McKee (1978) wrote a book called The Seasons of a Man's Life and Levinson and Levinson (1996) The Seasons of a Woman's Life, and, based on intensive data from small samples of men and women, posited intricate patterns of career and personal development – such as ‘mid-life crisis’ – that mapped precisely against individuals’ ages. The metaphoric notion of a life, and a career, having ‘seasons’ – predictable patterns involving growth, flowering, harvest and decline is attractive and lines up with much everyday experience of others’ lives.
Donald Super (1957, 1990), the dominating ...
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