Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work (Studies in Social Inequality) - Image 1

£84.00

Stanford University Press Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work (Studies in Social Inequality)

Name: Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work (Studies in Social Inequality)
Brand: Stanford University Press
Price: 84.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 38 days • 38 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 38 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £84 (38 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £84 - £84

Price levels: 1 different prices over 38 days

Description

America is witnessing a retirement crisis. As the labor market shifts to the gig economy and new strains restrict social security, the American Dream of secure retirement becomes further out of reach for up to half of the population. In Waiting on Retirement, Mary Gatta takes the case of restaurant workers to examine the experiences of low-wage workers who are middle-aged, aging, and past retirement age. She deftly explores the many factors shaping what it means to grow old in economic insecurity as her subjects face race- and gender-based inequities, health hazards associated with their work, and the bitter reality that the older they get the fewer professional opportunities are available to them. More importantly, Gatta demonstrates that these problems are pervasive, as more industries adopt the worst workplace practices of service work. In light of these trends, we must consider the devastating effects on already vulnerable Americans because, as Gatta contends, this crisis does not need to be inevitable. Taking as a model the small percentage of "good" restaurant jobs that exist, she ultimately offers incisive commentary on what can be done to stave off this bleak future.

Product Specifications

Brand: Stanford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0804799954
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 October 2018
Listed Since: 26 January 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Stanford University Press Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work (Studies in Social Inequality)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Ageing in Asia-Pacific: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives

Values and Well-being in the Retirement Transition

Positive Ageing and Human Resource Development (Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development)

Positive Ageing and Human Resource Development (Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development)

Older Workers in a Globalizing World: An International Comparison of Retirement and Late-Career Patterns in Western Industrialized Countries

Welfare in an Idle Society?: Reinventing Retirement, Work, Wealth, Health and Welfare

Navigating Social Security Options

Working Life and Gender Inequality: Intersectional Perspectives and the Spatial Practices of Peripheralization (Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations)

Social Security for the Elderly: Experiences from South Asia

From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers: Transformation of the Social Question

Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America (Globalization and Welfare series)

Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China (Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy)

Social Security for the Elderly: Experiences from South Asia

The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth: Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics)

Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics

Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal

The Distributional Aspects of Social Security & Social Security Reform (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

Economics of Population Aging: The Graying of Australia, Japan, and the United States

Inventing Retirement: The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain

Turning Troubles into Problems: Clientization in Human Services (Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society)

Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science: The Society Papers

International Handbook on Old-Age Insurance

Erwerbsverlauf und sozialer Schutz in Europa: Employment Biographies and Social Protection in Europe . Les parcours professionnels et la protection sociale en Europe

Stories of Progressive Institutional Change: Challenges to the Neoliberal Economy