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Informationen zum Autor Simonetta Manfredi is Professor of Equality andDiversity Management and Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Researchand Practice at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published and ledseveral externally funded projects focusing on age discrimination andretirement policies, gender and careers and work-life balance. LucyVickers is Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Lucy’s mainresearch area is the protection of human rights within the workplace andaspects of equality law. She has written extensively on issues relating toreligious discrimination and age discrimination at work. Klappentext This editedcollection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the ‘Active Ageing’ agenda toenable readers to consider the implications of this phenomenon for the law, theworkplace, and for working lives from a holistic perspective. Challenges of Active Ageing bringstogether academics working throughout Europe from different disciplinesincluding law, industrial relations, human resource management and occupationalpsychology to explore and debate the challenges of the ‘Active Ageing’ agendafor equality law and management practice. Also including shorter contributionsfrom law, human resource management, trade union and other practitioners, thisbook aims to fully reflect how organizations can adjust their practices torespond to the challenge of an aging population and extended working lives. Zusammenfassung This editedcollection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the ‘Active Ageing’ agenda toenable readers to consider the implications of this phenomenon for the law, theworkplace, and for working lives from a holistic perspective. Challenges of Active Ageing bringstogether academics working throughout Europe from different disciplinesincluding law, industrial relations, human resource management and occupationalpsychology to explore and debate the challenges of the ‘Active Ageing’ agendafor equality law and management practice. Also including shorter contributionsfrom law, human resource management, trade union and other practitioners, thisbook aims to fully reflect how organizations can adjust their practices torespond to the challenge of an aging population and extended working lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 – The Legal Framework.- Chapter 1 TheCJEU and age discrimination: addressing the double bind for age equality (ProfessorFrank Hendrickx).- Chapter 2 A freedom under supervision – the EU Court andcompulsory retirement age (Alvaro Oliveira).- Part 2 – Deregulation ofretirement.- Chapter 3 Retirement and thepension crisis (Jo Grady).- Chapter 4 Meetingthe challenges of active ageing in the UK: Is the abolition of mandatory retirementthe answer? A case study of the approachof retirement in the UK (Simonetta Manfredi and Lucy Vickers).- Part 3 –The challenges of extending working lives.-Chapter 5 Intersectionality of age and gender in labour law (Jenny JulenVotinius).- Chapter 6 Strategic challenges for social partners – a case studyon the Italian experience (Luciana Guaglianone and Fabio Ravelli).- Chapter 7 Olderworkers in the nursing profession: Will they stay or will they go? (NicolaJohnson and Simonetta Manfredi).- Chapter 8 Emerging options for extendingworking lives: results of a Delphi study (Alysia Blackham).- Part 4 –Older Workers perspectives on extending working lives.- Chapter 9 Extended working lives: what do older employees want? (WendyLoretto).- Chapter 10 Work and careers: perspectives from knowledge workersaged 48-58 (Karen Handley and Birgit den Outer).- Chapter 11 Function,flexibility and responsibility – differences in former professional jobs andpost-retirement activities amo...
