Age Discrimination and Diversity

by Sargeant, Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9781107003774
• ISBN10: 1107003776
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This volume of essays is concerned with the discrimination against older people that results from a failure to recognise their diversity. By considering the unique combinations of discrimination that arise from the interrelationship of age and gender, pensions, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic class and disability, the contributors demonstrate that the discrimination suffered is multiple in nature. It is the combination of these characteristics that leads to the need for more complex ways of tackling age discrimination.

Author Biography

Malcolm Sargeant is Professor of Labour Law at Middlesex University Business School.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vi
List of tables	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Ageism and age discrimination	p. 1
Multiple discrimination	p. 16
Older women, work and the impact of discrimination	p. 41
Still disadvantaged? Women in modern pension systems	p. 65
Ageing and social class: towards a dynamic approach to class inequalities in old age	p. 89
Age, sexual orientation and gender identity	p. 111
Age and ethnicity	p. 132
Disability and age discrimination	p. 160
New approaches for understanding inequalities in service use among older people	p. 183
Index	p. 198
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