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This article uses feminist scholarship to investigate ‘the elderly mystique’—which contends that the potential of old age is masked by a set of false beliefs about ageing (i.e. ageism) which permeate social, economic, and political life (Cohen, 1988).The article presents a theoretical model which explores the extent to which institutionalised ageism shapes the trajectory of life after 60.11Throughout...
I argue that the characterisation of the lower end of the service sector as innately poorly paid, casualised and unorganised confuses cause and effect. It describes the effects of an institutional vacuum that allows this sector to suffer severe wage competition, which results in low wages and poor working conditions. There is nothing innate in the lower end of the service sector that makes these jobs...
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