Portfolio Careers' and the Search for Flexibility in Later Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2372973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerry Platman (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 573-599 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017004045551 |
| OpenAlex | W1998969665 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 39 |
Economic activity rates among older men have declined rapidly in recent decades, presenting major challenges for individuals and society. One solution suggested to the problems of a lack of full-time permanent jobs for older men has been more flexible ways of working such as portfolio careers, freelancing and consulting for those nearing retirement age. But there has been a lack of research examining the realities of flexible working for the 50-plus age group. This article examines the experiences of older professionals as freelancers in the UK media industry where such working practices have long been common. By examining this relationship from the employer's and older freelancer's perspective, this article aims to discover the true extent of choice, freedom and autonomy experienced by portfolio professionals in late career
Autonomy · Business · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Labour economics · Management · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Portfolio · Public relations · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Finance
Flexible neue Arbeitswelt
Digital work
Authenticity and craft entrepreneurship
Non‐Pecuniary Rewards, Multiple Job‐Holding and the Labour Supply of Creative Workers
Challenges of older self-employed workers in creative industries
Creative industries work across multiple contexts
The creative industries
Bieg z przeszkodami. Ambiwalencje sukcesu artystycznego w poszerzonym polu kultury
Esnek Çalişma Bi̇çi̇mi̇ni̇n Endüstri̇yel Tasarimcinin Yaraticiliği Üzeri̇ne Etki̇si̇ni̇ Beli̇rlemeye Yöneli̇k Bi̇r Çalişma
The quality of a professional portfolio career in the post-industrial era
Entrepreneurial Pathways for Emerging Creatives
The case of the creative accelerator
Glimpses of resistance
Opportunity or Necessity? Disaggregating Self-Employment and Entry at Older Ages
Basic Income
Subjective Well-being of Migrants in Russia
Regional Differences in Access to Educational Resources, Academic Results and Students' Trajectories in Russia
Entrepreneurial intentions in the third age
The transition of midlife women from organisational into self‐employment
Freelance Journalists as a Flexible Workforce in Media Industries
Anything you can do, I can do better? Professional journalists on citizen journalism in six European countries
Interview with John W. Meyer
Self‐Employed without Employees
Maintaining a Freelance Career
Career Pathways into Retirement in the UK
Multiple job-holding and artistic careers
The structure of an uncertain world
Here today, gone tomorrow? The ambivalent ethics of contingency social work
Technology and journalism-as-labour
Beyond journalism
Back to the future of journalist work? Entrepreneurial subjectivity and freelance journalism in Sweden
The composition of precarity
Managing Portfolio Lives
Socially distanced artistic careers
Portrait of the Artist as a Non-Artist. Matryoshka Roles and the Heteronomization of the Italian Art Field
Work and Intimacy
Digi-Housekeeping
Capabilities and Choices of Vulnerable, Long-Term Unemployed Individuals
Identity-in-the-work and musicians' struggles
Job loss and its aftermath among managers and professionals
Collaborating in a competitive world
Have stethoscope, will travel
A retreat from permanent employment
Leveraging Limits for Contract Professionals
Socially stratified associations between self-employment and health among Chilean older people
Approaches to Social Enquiry
Handbook of qualitative research
Time for retirement
States of Injury
Britain at Work
Flexible Employment
Qualitative Research Interviewing
Powers of Freedom
Flexible Employment in Later Life
Feminist Fallacies
Servicing the media
Getting on in the BBC
Gender, Age and Attitudes to Retirement in Mid-Life
Professional Workers in a Risk Society
Explaining Women's Employment Patterns
Five Feminist Myths about Women's Employment
Self-Employment Career Dynamics
Managing Self-management
You're only as Good as Your Last Job
Work, Employment and Society, 1997-2007
Assessing Anti-ageism Routes to Older Worker Re-engagement
Exploring Mid-Life Women's Employment
Grateful slaves and self-made women
The Managerial Career After Downsizing
Insecurity and Long-term Employment
Freelance Workers and Contract Uncertainty
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |