Granny @ work : aging and new technology on the job in America /

In Granny @ Work, Karen E. Riggs-a renowned expert on aging-shows how employers, software engineers, and public policy makers are thinking about the roles older adults might play in the workplace of the future

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Main Author: Riggs, Karen E
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; The New, New Deal: The Post-Retirement Era; Lost Boomers in Space: Aging Workers and the Soft Digital Economy; An American (Techno) Legend: Women, Age, and the Harley-Davidson Workplace; "Granny, Go Ahead, You Won't Tear It Up": Central-City Elders Go Computing (with Jacquelyn Vinson and Amy Lauters); Use It or Lose It: The Self-Programmable Elder; Wizards, Space Cowboys, and (of course) Sean Connery: Film Images of Aging Workers; Who You Callin' Dude?: Magazine Advertisers Discover Older Workers