Commentary

The future of work and retirement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9890197
AutoresC Phillipson (0000-0001-6220-2722, University of Manchester, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume66
Fascículo1
Páginas143-153
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0018726712465453
OpenAlexW2101566888
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas15

Changing patterns of work and retirement raise major questions for social policy in the 21st century. A key issue concerns how to handle the legacy of the 20th century – namely the institutionalization of retirement as a major part of the life course. The acceptance of early retirement in the 1970s and 1980s accelerated the growth of post-work lifestyles, consolidated by the cohort of ‘first wave’ baby boomers (those born in the 1940s and early 1950s). Both aspects are now in collision with the drive to delay retirement and put in place later pension ages. The various articles discussed in this Special Issue explore a number of questions affecting the future of work and retirement, including developments in the policy arena, factors influencing career decisions in middle and late life, and changing transitions from work to retirement. The discussion concludes with an assessment of the new research agendas emerging from debates about extending working life and the future of retirement

Baby boomers · Economics · Institutionalisation · Labour economics · Life course approach · Pension · Political science · Retirement age · Sociology · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Psychology