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Age at Work

From Jeff: For Amy, Molly and Tom

From Wendy: For Carolyn, Derek, Anna and Seb

Age at Work

Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing

• Jeff Hearn
• Wendy Parkin

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Jeff Hearn and Wendy Parkin 2021

First published 2021

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About the Authors

Jeff Hearnis Professor Emeritus, Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Gender Studies, rebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; and Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa.Wendy Parkinis a retired Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Social Work, University of Huddersfield, UK, and social worker. After retirement, she was involved in patient engagement at both primary health care level and strategic Clinical Commissioning Group level.Richard Howsonis Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Wollongong, and an Associate Member, the Fay Gale Centre, Adelaide University, Australia.Charlotta Niemistis Project Leader, Director of the GODESS Institute, and formerly Assistant Professor, Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Finland.

Preface

Age and work may seem, to some, as in tension. Yet age is at work in a host of ways, both subtle and blatant, shaping, affecting and permeating work, organizations and societies. And while adults of middle years dominate many workplaces and other organizations, children, younger people and older people are all responsible for a huge amount of work, whether paid, unpaid, voluntary or caring. In this book, we explore some of the many ways in which age is at work, and particularly the organization(s) and organizing of age.

When the word age is mentioned, many think it means ageing which is then assumed to mean old people, which, in turn, in terms of being at work', is largely taken to mean extending the employment of older workers and their commodification. This easily de-ages organizations and other organizational members, and, to say the least, plays down how care is also work.

We have worked together since 1978, though we have never been employed in the same organization, and never applied for or received any research funding together. Four years earlier, Jeff had begun his tenure at the University of Bradford, at the same time as Wendy started as a mature student'. In 1974, for a 37-year-old woman with children to begin undergraduate study was very unusual. Jeff's course on Groups and Organizations was the catalyst for our joint interest in the study of organizations, especially gender and organizations, which led onto our writing collaboration. We have now worked together long-term, and at a pace contingent on circumstances and demands.

It was fairly late in the process of writing this book that we came to see it as the third part of a trilogy, beginning with the book, Sex at Work', published in 1987, revised and updated in 1995, followed by Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations, in 2001, and now this. In this book, we aim to develop an anti-ageist approach that is located within a broadly conceived critical theory, and that recognizes the potential of feminist, postcolonial, intersectionally aged standpoints, as well as the need to be aware of what is left outside. The focus on older people and the old in turn demands a critical relation to the unmarked aged category of (non-old) adulthood. It means an appreciation of the dangers of such a focus without considering age and ageing more generally, placing older age into wider contexts of age system, age hegemony and age regimes. Specifically, it entails recognition of double ageism towards both the old and the young.

We seek to move from age, ageing and the old as othered to non-essentialist, anti-ageist thinking and being. We build on extensive previous work on gender, sexuality, violence, violation, power and intersectionality, as well as on emotions and communicative processes. As such, we see the relations of age, gender and sexuality as especially important, but not in any isolation from other intersections.

While this book is primarily about the relationship between organizations and ageing, this does not preclude use of other disciplines. Accordingly, we draw on our own and others previous research across several disciplines, especially gender studies, sociology, social theory, social policy, health studies, law, organization studies, politics, psychology and several more specific areas, such as critical and cultural gerontology, social care and death studies. To illustrate these debates, we use our own and others lived experience. Our approach to writing is heavily influenced by autoethnography and feminist memory work in reflecting critically on our own previous work and changing positionality in relation to age and ageing, amongst other things. This necessarily entails engagement with questions of memory, forgetting, rememorizing and not forgetting: this bears repetition.

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