- Title
- Reconceptualising work-retirement transitions: Critiques of the new retirement and bridge employment
- Creator
- Earl, Catherine; Taylor, Philip
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164087
- Identifier
- vital:12994
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58813-1_15
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319588131 (ISBN); 9783319588124 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- There is an extensive and growing research literature, particularly in the psychology and management disciplines, concerning ‘bridge employment’ which, it is argued, is increasingly occurring between the end of a career job and full retirement. However, this area is undertheorised and lacking a long view in terms of an appreciation of the wider literature concerned with work and retirement, in particular being informed by the political economy and lifecourse perspectives. Bridging the gap between work and retirement is of current concern as governments push out the ages at which people work and retire, with retirement, once considered the moral foundation of social welfare systems, being refashioned as a kind of unemployment. This chapter takes a critical stance on what we describe as the new retirement and the concept of bridge employment, questioning the motives for the emergence of the former and the latter’s utility for researchers and policymakers as a lens through which to view the evolution of work–retirement transitions.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Relation
- Ageing, Organisations and Management : Constructive Discourses and Critical Perspectives Chapter 15 p. 323-344
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2017
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Work-retirement transitions; Bridge employment
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