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Book SynopsisAgeism at Work looks at how ageism plays out in the labour market and how it intersects with sexism from the perspective of both older workers and employers.
Table of ContentsForeword by Victor Marshall Acknowledgements 1. Exploring Ageism 2. Organizational and Personal Characteristics Influencing Employers’ Attitudes Toward Older Workers 3. “Prejudice is Always Just Under the Surface”: Older Workers’ Perceptions of Ageism in the Labour Market 4. “I Feel Like a Castaway; Like an Old Shoe That is of No Use Anymore”: Aging Identities 5. “The One Thing You Need is Your Bottle of Dye”: Managing Age Discrimination in the Job Search 6. “If Someone’s Looking Creaky and Shaky…You Don’t Hire Them”: Employers’ Qualitative Accounts about Older Workers 7. Reflections on Ageism at Work: Conclusions and Implications References Appendix. Research Methods and Data Analysis List of Figures Figure 1. Older Workers’ Labour Market Experiences List of Tables Table 1. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #1: Employer Survey Table 2. Frequency Distributions on Positive and Negative Attitudinal Statements About Older Workers Table 3. Factor Structure for Employers’ Attitudes Toward Older Workers Table 4. Means [standard deviations] from ANOVAs and t-tests on Characteristics of Employers Table 5. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #2: Older Worker Interviews Table 6. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #3: Older Worker Survey Table 7. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #4: Employer Interviews
