Working with Age

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword xi
• Introduction xiii
• Translators xxi
• Part One - Ways of Thinking Out the Age-Work Relationship in the Course of Time 1
• Ways of Thinking Out the Age-Work Relationship in the Course of Time 3
• Part Two - The Emergence of Age-Related Problems in the Workplace 51
• The Emergence of Age-Related Problems in the Workplace 53
• Chapter One - The 'Ageing' of the Workforce 57
• Chapter Two - Elements for a Demography of Work 71
• Chapter Three - The Statistical Study of the Links Between Age, Work and Health and the Estev Survey Example 91
• Chapter Four - Manifestations and Forms of Differential Ageing in a Metallurgical Plant 99
• Chapter Five - In Search of Selective Jobs: Work and Ageing in a Small Garment Factory 119
• Part Three - Age-Linked Changes in Relation to Work Behaviour 129
• Age-Linked Changes in Relation to Work Behaviour 131
• Chapter Six - Ageing of the Organism Before Sixty Years of Age 133
• Chapter Seven - Cognitive Change, Work Constraints and Experience: the Ageing Worker's Room for Manoeuvre 163
• Chapter Eight - Declining or Discerning Eyes? Senescence and Experience in Viewing 187
• Chapter Nine - Visual Capacities and Elderly Drivers 205
• Chapter Ten - Suffering from Work Schedules: the Burden of Age and Life History 209
• Chapter Eleven - Manifestations of Ageing at Work: Presentation of Two Studies Carried Out on Air Traffic Controllers 231
• Chapter Twelve - Ageing and Ways of Regulating Work: the Case of Repetitive Tasks Under the Pressure of Pace 249
• Part Four - Age, Work Behaviour and Job Transformations 267
• Age, Work Behaviour and Job Transformations 269
• Chapter Thirteen - Being Over Forty-Five in an Everchanging Technological Context 273
• Chapter Fourteen - Elderly Drivers Faced with New Technologies: Consequences for the Ergonomic Design of Driving Aid Systems 285
• Chapter Fifteen - Ageing Workers, Learning and Job Training 297
• Chapter Sixteen - Changes in the Workforce and the Transformation or the Design of Work 313
• Chapter Seventeen - Ageing of the Workforce and Industrial Projects: a Method of Analysis 327
• Part Five - Work and Ages, from Research to Action 335
• V.1 - Work and Ages, from Research to Action 337
• Epilogue 345
• References 349
• Supplementary Reference List 389
• Index 391

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