Working Through Ageing : Experiencing Growing up and Older at Work, Kathleen Riach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riach, Kathleen, author.

Series:

Rethinking work, ageing and retirement.

Rethinking Work, Ageing and Retirement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maturation (Psychology).

Age and employment.

Ability, Influence of age on.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Experiencing Growing up and Older at Work

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Growing up and older at work is something we all experience, yet it remains surprisingly overlooked and under theorized in management and organization studies. In this groundbreaking book, Kathleen Riach draws on a 10 year longitudinal study to offer fresh theoretical and empirical insights into how ageing is experienced in the workplace. Introducing a new phenomenological theory of ageing at work, the book examines how individuals negotiate age-biased workplace cultures and adapt to their changing bodies within the context of financial capitalism. It reveals that ageing at work is not simply about demographic change or ageist stereotypes, but is an ongoing process that involves balancing professional expectations, the life course, and the self.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Working through Ageing: Experiencing Growing Up and Older at Work

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface

Preface: Ageing, Ageing, All Around …

1 Constellations of Organizational Ageing: Controlled, Commodified, Conferred

Ageing as controlled

Ageing as commodity: devaluing/​revaluing the ageing body

Ageing as conferred: the making of an ageing subject

Discussion: the chronotopics of ageing at work

2 Towards a Phenomenology of Working Through Ageing

A phenomenological invitation into organizational ageing

Ageing with and against Simone de Beauvoir

The dis-​ease of the dynamically situated condition of the ageing subject

Discussion: working through ageing

3 Figuring-​in Conversations About Working Through Ageing

Getting a grip? The research context

Studying the man ( sic ) who wasn't there

Calling to attention: figuring-​in analysis

Discussion: writing 'up' as an ekphrastic pursuit

4 Disclosing Ageing: Revealing the World in Working Relations

Disclosure through curiosity: reaching out and connecting across the working life course

Generational politeness as a social emotion

Spectacularity in ageing: relating in gendered ageism

Discussion: the dialectics of disclosure and enclosure in ageing relations

5 Grasping Ageing: Working Through the Ageing Self

Grappling with successful ageing

Temporal gaslighting

The anachronism of ageing aftershocks

Holding ageing together

Chapter discussion: colonization and the ageing Other in ourselves

6 Anchoring Ageing: Chronochoreography in Space and Setting

London: no city for old men?

Anchoring ageing appropriately

Second sites of work

Discussion: unmooring ageing.

7 Mottling: Surfacing a Generative Experience of Working Through Ageing

The invisibility of ageing in financial services work

The generative Other-​in-​ageing

The psychosocial promiscuity of the ageing self

Compostability and the onto-​organics of ageing

Working through ageing: beyond a blueprint

Appendix Undertaking Longitudinal Qualitative Research Through a Phenomenological Lens

Three points of orientation in figuring-​in longitudinal qualitative research

Capsuling

Wasting

Weighting

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5292-4581-8

1-5292-4583-4

OCLC:

1533773945