Working with Age

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. Abstract: 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 Content: Book Cover Title Contents Foreword Introduction Contributors Translators 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 and Health, and the ESTEV Survey Example Manifestations and Forms of Differential Ageing in a Metallurgical Plant In Search of Selective Jobs: Work and Ageing in a Small Garment Factory Age-linked Changes in Relation to Work Behaviour. Ageing of the Organism before Sixty Years of AgeCognitive Change, Work Constraints and Experience: the Ageing Worker's Room for Manoeuvre Declining or Discerning Eyes? Senescence and Experience in Viewing Visual Capacities and Elderly Drivers Suffering from Work Schedules: the Burden of Age and Life History Manifestations of Ageing at Work: Presentation of Two Studies Carried Out on Air Traffic Controllers Ageing and Ways of Regulating W. 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 w This text introduces current academic thinking on work & age & describes ways in which working methods, the organisation of work, & innovative programmes, such as tailored training can be introduced to reflect ageing as an intrinsic part of human life Edited By Jean Claude Marquié, Dominique Paumès Cau-bareille, Serge Volkoff. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 349-390) And Index. Translation Of: Le Travail Au Fil De L'âge. Coordinateurs Jean-claude Marquié, Dominique Paumès, Serge Volkoff. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [454]-505) And Index. In order to describe the research done on ageing, one should refer to the metaphor of resurgence! Comprises 20 papers which discuss the relationship between ageing and work