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Forced Out : Older Workers Confront Job Loss / Kenneth A. Root, Rosemarie J. Park.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781935049739
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.3/981370973 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Major Events in the History of United Defense -- 1 What It Means to Lose a Job -- 2 Downsizing at United Defense -- 3 Meet the Men from United Defense -- 4 Forced Out: First Thoughts -- 5 The Financial Costs of Termination -- 6 The Unemployed -- 7 Older Workers in the Job Hunt -- 8 Is Self-Employment Viable? -- 9 Retiring from the Work World -- 10 On the Positive Side of Job Loss -- 11 Years Later: Reflections on Job Loss -- 12 Workforce Policy and Programs: A Better Way to Ease Job Transitions -- Appendix 1: Methodology -- Appendix 2: Questionnaires -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: What happens to long-term employees when their jobs are unexpectedly eliminated? In this richly detailed study of a major layoff and its aftermath, Kenneth Root and Rosemarie Park address head-on the ramifications of job loss for older workers. The authors follow the experiences of 173 factory workers--from first thoughts on being forced out of work to reflections several years later. Retraining, age discrimination, and the occasional, if unanticipated, benefits of job loss are among the many issues considered. The result is a wide-ranging and thoughtful look at both the universal issues facing downsized employees and the unique challenges of being an older worker involuntarily out of work.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Major Events in the History of United Defense -- 1 What It Means to Lose a Job -- 2 Downsizing at United Defense -- 3 Meet the Men from United Defense -- 4 Forced Out: First Thoughts -- 5 The Financial Costs of Termination -- 6 The Unemployed -- 7 Older Workers in the Job Hunt -- 8 Is Self-Employment Viable? -- 9 Retiring from the Work World -- 10 On the Positive Side of Job Loss -- 11 Years Later: Reflections on Job Loss -- 12 Workforce Policy and Programs: A Better Way to Ease Job Transitions -- Appendix 1: Methodology -- Appendix 2: Questionnaires -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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What happens to long-term employees when their jobs are unexpectedly eliminated? In this richly detailed study of a major layoff and its aftermath, Kenneth Root and Rosemarie Park address head-on the ramifications of job loss for older workers. The authors follow the experiences of 173 factory workers--from first thoughts on being forced out of work to reflections several years later. Retraining, age discrimination, and the occasional, if unanticipated, benefits of job loss are among the many issues considered. The result is a wide-ranging and thoughtful look at both the universal issues facing downsized employees and the unique challenges of being an older worker involuntarily out of work.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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