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Title: Scrap Iron and Old Stagers

Scrap Iron and Old Stagers

Constructions of Old Age in Unemployment

by Florentine Maier (Author)
©2010 Thesis 284 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Sprache im Kontext, Volume 33

Summary

The study won the 2008 Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation Award and the 2008 Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
When older workers become unemployed, they face considerable obstacles in the labour market. Often they are depicted as too old to work but too young to retire. This study is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork at the Public Employment Service Austria (AMS). By means of discourse analysis, the study shows the breadth of images available for older unemployed, ranging from unemployable «scrap iron» to savvy «old stagers». Implications of these images in peoples everyday life and in the wider context of labour market policy are explored.

Details

Pages
284
Year
2010
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631592885
Language
English
Keywords
Alter Arbeitslosigkeit Diskursanalyse Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2009. 282 pp., 6 fig. and 12 tables

Biographical notes

Florentine Maier (Author)

The Author: Florentine Maier is a researcher at the Nonprofit Management Group at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her research areas are the managerialization of NPOs, alternative forms of organizing in NPOs, and the employment of older workers. She holds a doctoral degree in personnel management and organizational behavior from WU (2008) and a Magister degree in international business studies and Chinese language and culture. In 2009, she served as a Fulbright visiting scholar at Stanford University

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