Ageism at Work: Deconstructing Age and Gender in the Discriminating Labour Market

Foreword by Victor Marshall
Acknowledgements
1. Exploring Ageism
2. Organizational and Personal Characteristics Influencing Employers’ Attitudes Toward Older Workers
3. “Prejudice is Always Just Under the Surface”: Older Workers’ Perceptions of Ageism in the Labour Market
4. “I Feel Like a Castaway; Like an Old Shoe That is of No Use Anymore”: Aging Identities
5. “The One Thing You Need is Your Bottle of Dye”: Managing Age Discrimination in the Job Search
6. “If Someone’s Looking Creaky and Shaky…You Don’t Hire Them”: Employers’ Qualitative Accounts about Older Workers
7. Reflections on Ageism at Work: Conclusions and Implications
References
Appendix. Research Methods and Data Analysis

 
List of Figures
Figure 1. Older Workers’ Labour Market Experiences

List of Tables
Table 1. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #1: Employer Survey
Table 2. Frequency Distributions on Positive and Negative Attitudinal Statements About Older Workers
Table 3. Factor Structure for Employers’ Attitudes Toward Older Workers
Table 4. Means [standard deviations] from ANOVAs and t-tests on Characteristics of Employers
Table 5. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #2: Older Worker Interviews
Table 6. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #3: Older Worker Survey
Table 7. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Sample in Study #4: Employer Interviews