In the late 1990s age is a pressing concern on a scale previously unimaginable in the social sciences and caring professions. The inexorable development of the age pyramid and the quick pace of technological change has brought work and age together as inter-linked areas of study and intervention.; This text introduces current academic thinking on work and age and describes ways in which working methods, the organization of work, and innovative programmes (such as tailored training) can be introduced to reflect more ...
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In the late 1990s age is a pressing concern on a scale previously unimaginable in the social sciences and caring professions. The inexorable development of the age pyramid and the quick pace of technological change has brought work and age together as inter-linked areas of study and intervention.; This text introduces current academic thinking on work and age and describes ways in which working methods, the organization of work, and innovative programmes (such as tailored training) can be introduced to reflect more accurately an intrinsic part of human life: ageing. The book encompassing physiological, psychological and social factors. The object is to define clearly diverse aspects involved in the passing of time - ageing, generational effects, experience and other marks of time. Their combined effects reveal different signs of ageing on behaviour as well as on strategies to contend with professional requirements at different stages in life.; The style of this text makes it accessible to a non-specialist public but also opens avenues for those who wish to delve deeper into the matter to discover the state-of-the-art questions and issues being addressed in international work and age research.
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Textual graphs & tables. Minor rubbing. Binding corner bumps. VG. 25x17cm, xxii, 395 pp, Small dent to side cover edge. Contains 22 papers. Includes: Ways of Thinking Out the Age-Work Relationship in the Course of Time; The Emergence of Age-Related Problems in the Workplace; The 'Ageing' of the Workforce; Elements for a Demography of Work; The Statistical Study of the Links Between Age, Work & Health, & the ESTEV Survey Example; Manifestations & Forms of Differential Ageing in a Metallurgical Plant; In Search of Selective Jobs: Work & Ageing in a Small Garment Factory; Age-Linked Changes in Relation to Work Behaviour: Ageing in the Organism Before Sixty Years of Age; Cognitive Change, Work Constraints & Experience. The Ageing Worker's Room for Manoeuvre; Declining or Discerning Eyes? Senescence & Experience in Viewing; Visual Capacities & Elderly Drivers; Suffering from Work Schedules: The Burden of Age & Life History; Manifestations of Ageing at Work: Presentation of Two Studies Carried Out on Air Traffic Controllers; Ageing & Ways of Regulating Work: The case of Repetitive Tasks & the Pressure of Pace: Age, Work Behaviour & Jpob Transformation: Being Over Forty-Five in an Ever-Changing Technological Context; Elderly Drivers Faced with Bew Technologies: Consequences for the Ergonomic Design of Driving Aid Systems; Ageing Workers, Learning & Job Training; Changes in the Workforce & the Transformation or the Design of Work; Ageing of the Workforce & Industrial Projects: Method of Analysis; Work & Ages, from Research to Action.
