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| Titre : | Rusty, invisible and threatening : ageing, capital and employability (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Dina Bowman ; Michael McGann ; Helen Kimberley |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Work, employment and society (vol. 31, n° 3, June 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 465–482 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ TRAVAILLEUR AGE ; AUSTRALIE ; CHOMAGE ; EMPLOYABILITE ; THEORIE DU CAPITAL HUMAINAuteur Cité BOURDIEU Pierre |
| Résumé : | Levels of mature-age unemployment and under-employment are increasing in Australia, with older jobseekers spending longer unemployed than younger jobseekers. This article focuses on two key explanations of the difficulties confronting older jobseekers: human capital theory, which focuses on the obsolescence of older workers’ job skills, and ageism in employment. Drawing upon narrative interviews with older Australians, it critically engages with both these understandings. Using a Bourdieusian analysis, it shows how ageing intersects with the deployment of different forms of capital that are valued within particular labour market fields to shape older workers’ ‘employability’. By examining how class, gender and age intersect to structure experiences of marginalization, it questions conventional analyses that see older workers as discriminated against simply because they are older.(source: article) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/wes/current |
