Working through Ageing, 9781529245813
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Ageing at work: navigating expectations, bodies, and capitalism’s demands.
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Working through Ageing

experiencing growing up and older at work

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  • Paperback

    222 pages

  • Release Date

    27 December 2025

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Summary

Working Through Ageing: A New Perspective on the Ageing Workforce

Growing up and older at work is something we all experience, yet it remains surprisingly overlooked and under theorized in management and organization studies.

In this groundbreaking book, Kathleen Riach draws on a 10 year longitudinal study to offer fresh theoretical and empirical insights into how ageing is experienced in the workplace.

Introducing a new phenomenological theory of ageing at work, the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529245813
ISBN-10:1529245818
Series:Rethinking Work, Ageing and Retirement
Author:Kathleen Riach
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Imprint:Bristol University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:222
Release Date:27 December 2025
Weight:346g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
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Critics Review

“Pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of ageing in the workplace, revealing how ageing is actively done in relation with and through our colleagues, teams, and institutions. Thoughtful, rigorous, and deeply human, this is a vital and timely contribution to scholarship on ageing, embodiment, and the social self”, Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Oregon State University

“With enviable clarity, this book ensures we acquire the richest possible grasp of the paradoxical process of ageing in the workplace. Essential reading for everyone concerned with the interconnected vulnerabilities of the human condition”, Lynne Segal, author of Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing and Professor emerita of Birkbeck, University of London

About The Author

Kathleen Riach

Kathleen Riach is Professor of Organizational Studies at University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation at Monash University. Her pioneering research explores the lived experience of inequality throughout the working life course, with a particular focus on ageing as both an organizing and organized phenomenon. A prominent advocate for gender equality and economic empowerment, she serves as a UK delegate for the G20 Engagement Group, the W20, where she contributes to global policy dialogue. Kathleen has also collaborated with organizations and policymakers at both national and international levels to drive impactful change.

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