Men Still At Work - Professionals Over Sixty and on the Job

Men Still at Work explores the reasons why many men are continuing to work well beyond the traditional retirement age. In today's challenging economy, they are the second-fastest growing group of workers (just behind older women). Filled with profiles of older working men, as well as dynamic interview quotes, Men Still at Work explores thorny issues such as masculinity and the "need to provide," as well as economic issues, job satisfaction, and more.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

1.Introduction

2.Perspectives on Aging and Work

3.A Man's World

4.The Employment Situation for Adult Workers in the United States

5.Over Sixty and On the Job

6.Where Older Men Work

7.Why Older Men Work

8.Personal Challenges and Concerns

9.Doing Unto Others

10.Men Still at Work

Notes

Bibliography

Discussion Questions

Index

About the Author

About the author

Elizabeth F. Fideler (EdD, Harvard University) is a Research Fellow at Boston College's Center on Aging and Work. She is the author of Women Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job (2012) and Men Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job (2014). She is a longtime trustee of the Framingham (MA) Public Library and chairs the library's "one book, one community" initiative.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth F. Fideler, Fideler Elizabeth F.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2014
• EAN: 9781442222755
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2275-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Age groups: the elderly, Sociology: work & labour, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General