§16§This book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong empirical evidence from different contexts, the impact of different life course trajectories on the risks and the opportunities at the end of career are demonstrated. The organisation of workplace and institutional frameworks which reinforce inequalities are also presented. As such the book is an essential reading for students, academics and policy makers who seek to understand how exclusion processes operate to the disadvantage of older workers in the labour market. §This is an open access book.§ §04§§Chapter 1. Social exclusion in late life, evidence from the European Social Survey.- Chapter 2: Working conditions and retirement preferences: The role of health and subjective age as mediating variables in the association of bad Jobs with early retirement.- Chapter 3: The joint influence of family and occupational trajectories on retirement timing in six European countries: a life course approach.- Chapter 4. Bridge employment in Belgium: between standardization and institutionalization of life courses.- Chapter 5. The Romanian retirement markets. Inequalities, resilience and innovation.- Chapter 6. Extending working life for workers in physically demanding and sedentary occupations in the United States - a life-course perspective.- Chapter 7. National context and neo-liberal globalization: The construction of life courses among men in manual labour in Portugal and Sweden".- Chapter 8. Changing rules of labour market and the loss of work motivation among older male employees: §04§ critical perspectives to policies aimed at extending working life in Finland.- Chapter 9. Sustainable work from a life course perspective and attitudes towards retirement.- Chapter 10. Seniors as wanted or unwanted labour force. Cross-national comparison of attitudes toward people over 70, their stereotypes and discrimination.- Chapter 11. The situation of older people in Poland from the perspective of the life course perspective.- Chapter 12. The social, political and economic frameworks: discourses and trends.- Chapter 13. The transition from disability benefits to retirement benefits in the Romanian social security system.- Chapter 14. Health, working conditions and work life extension.§ §02§Nathalie Burnay is Professor in Sociology at the University of Namur and at the University of Louvain since 2008. Her main research focuses on the evolution of social policies and changes in working conditions in a perspective of extending working life. She is currently member of the Executive Board of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF) since 2016 and co-director of the Research Committee on "Life Course and Ageing" of AISLF.§Jim Ogg is Associate Researcher of the Ageing Research Unit, French National Pension Fund. He has worked in the field of social gerontology since 1987. His main research areas include ageing and family life, the transition to retirement, and the role of housing and habitat in later life.§§Clary Krekula is Professor of social Linnaeus University. Her research focuses on critical age studies, social gerontology, and time and temporality. From these perspectives, she has brought attention to embodied ageing, age n §02§ormalities and temporal regimes in work organisations.§§Patricia Vendramin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. She is head of the Open Faculty of Economic and Social Science and holder of the Chaire Travail-Université. Her research areas include working conditions and ageing.§§
