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Book SynopsisThis edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people.
Table of ContentsPrecarity and ageing: New perspectives for social gerontology ~ Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson and Rick Settersten Jr.; How life course dynamics matter for precarity in later life? ~ Rick Settersten Jr.; Precarious life, human development and the life course: critical intersections ~ Stephen Katz; Re-reading frailty through a lens of precarity: an explication of politics and the human condition of vulnerability ~ Amanda Grenier; Older workers and ontological precarity: between precarious employment, precarious welfare and precarious households ~ David Lain, Laura Airey, Wendy Loretto, Sarah Vickerstaff; Precarity, migration, and aging ~ Karen Kobayashi and Mushira Mohsin Khan; A framework to identify precarity in the social sciences: insights from qualitative research with older people ~ Elena Portacolone; Reconstructing dependency: precarity, precariousness and care in old age ~ Michael Fine; From precarious employment to precarious retirement: neoliberal health and long-term care in the United States ~ Larry Polivka and Baozhen Luo; Austerity and precarity: individual and collective agency in later life ~ Chris Phillipson; Precarity and ageing in the twenty-first century ~ Chris Phillipson, Amanda Grenier and Rick Settersten Jr..
