Ageism and Abuse in the Workplace: A New Frontier

The economic crisis in the United States has led to increased media coverage of older workers being laid off, forced to retire, or working longer than planned. Embedded in these reports are the intimations of workplace abuse. Social workers need to start taking into account ageism and abuse in the w...

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Published inJournal of gerontological social work Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 654 - 658
Main Author Powell, Mebane
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis Group 01.10.2010
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
Age Factors
Ageism
Aging
Awareness
Bullying
Economic Crises
Economic crisis
Human Rights
Humans
Media coverage
Needs
News Coverage
Occupational psychology
Occupational safety
Older people
Organizational Change
Organizational Policy
Policy making
Prejudice
Social Work
Social workers
Work environment
Workplace - psychology
workplace abuse
Workplaces
United States > US
USA
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Summary:The economic crisis in the United States has led to increased media coverage of older workers being laid off, forced to retire, or working longer than planned. Embedded in these reports are the intimations of workplace abuse. Social workers need to start taking into account ageism and abuse in the workplace as possible cooccurring issues to effectively implement policy, and organizational change that will address both issues. This brief article discusses ageism and abuse in the workplace using a human rights framework, the current state of the literature, and directions for future research.
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ISSN:0163-4372
1540-4048
DOI:10.1080/01634372.2010.508510