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Work, that is employed and paid work, and private life are often spoken of as separate worlds. Yet, the notional separation of the public and the private clearly varies immensely by class, occupation, gender, ethnicity and racialisation. Women have always worked in the home, mainly unpaid, and for many this was and still is their main workplace.
Read MoreWhat happens at work, and in workplaces, clearly has a lot to do with different jobs, occupations and class more generally, but workplaces are much more than that. Workplaces are also places of age, where age is “done”, is constructed and reconstructed, is experienced, celebrated and denied. At work, people are routinely assessed by age, sometimes in terms of being a certain number of years, more often through some form of cultural assessment of occupational or professional age – is this a young worker?
Read MorePopulation ageing is now a daunting challenge across the globe. In the last few decades, enormous advancement in medical science, coupled with a sharp decline in fertility, has accentuated the share of the elderly population and created the problem of population ageing. Compared to the developed world, the demographic transition is more challenging for the Asian countries like China and India because of the huge population size and inadequate social security system for the elderly citizens.
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