Gebundenes Buch

Challenges of Active Ageing

Equality Law and the Workplace

Herausgegeben: Manfredi, Simonetta; Vickers, Lucy

Beschreibung

This editedcollection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the 'Active Ageing' agenda toenable readers to consider the implications of this phenomenon for the law, theworkplace, and for working lives from a holistic perspective. Challenges of Active Ageing bringstogether academics working throughout Europe from different disciplinesincluding law, industrial relations, human resource management and occupationalpsychology to explore and debate the challenges of the 'Active Ageing' agendafor equality law and management practice. Also including shorter contributionsfrom law, human resource management, trade union and other practitioners, thisbook aims to fully reflect how organizations can adjust their practices torespond to the challenge of an aging population and extended working lives.

Autor

Simonetta Manfredi is Professor of Equality and Diversity Management and Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published and led several externally funded projects focusing on age discrimination and retirement policies, gender and careers and work-life balance. Lucy Vickers is Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Lucy's main research area is the protection of human rights within the workplace and aspects of equality law. She has written extensively on issues relating to religious discrimination and age discrimination at work. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-53249-7
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9781137532497
• ISBN-10: 1137532491
• Artikelnr.: 44374441