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Rethinking Risk and Ageing: Extending Working Lives
Powell, Jason Taylor, Paul J.
Powell, Jason
Taylor, Paul J.
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2016-07-04
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This paper critically examines the development of recent policy and theoretical issues concerning the ‘extension of working lives’ for older people in the United Kingdom. It grounds its analysis in ideas from the ‘risk society’ thesis (Beck, 1992) to explore how the matrix of population ageing, job and pension changes impinge on shifting emphasis on increasing the retirement age coupled with individualizing pensions from State provision to a focus on self-responsibility via private provision. This neo-liberal re-positioning of extending work and pension policy has implications for the management of risk for older people in the UK. The paper explores the impact of population ageing on Government ideas associated with social policy relating to extending working lives. It concludes with an assessment on the lessons policy makers and social policy analysts can learn from such shifts and impact on the social construction of age.
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Powell, J. L., & Taylor, P. (2016). Rethinking risk and ageing: Extending working lives. Social Policy and Society, 15(4), 637-645. doi:10.1017/S1474746416000270
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Cambridge University Press
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Social Policy and Society
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This article has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to peer review and/or editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in Social Policy and Society published by Cambridge University Press. Copyright Cambridge University Press.
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1474-7464
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1475-3073