To browse Academia. Susan Halford. Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population.
However, in this article we argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations; and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of age.
To see things differently, and to see different things, we offer a novel analytical synthesis that combines insights from post-foundational feminist theory, the film No Country for Old Men and an empirical study of older nurses working in the Norwegian public health-care system.
Our aim is to provide the foundations for alternative interventions in the world of work that might underpin a more sustainable future for older workers. Platon Tinios. Naj Ghosheh.
Concern regarding older workers is not new to the ILO. In the late s, the potential problems faced by aging societies around the world were discussed and debated in detail. The result of these activities was the creation of an international labour standard, the Older Workers Recommendation, No. This international standard was intended to frame the issues of concern regarding the employment and work circumstances of older workers and to stimulate action to improve them.
