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    Ageism and age discrimination in the labour market and employer responses
    TAYLOR, P ; Griffin, T ; Beddie, F (NCVE, 2011)
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    Is early retirement history?
    TAYLOR, P ; Ennals, R (Peter Lang Publishing, 2011)
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    Promoting worker resilience over the lifecourse
    McLoughlin, C ; TAYLOR, P ; Bohle, P ; Resnick, B ; Roberto, KA (Springer, 2011)
    In Australia, as in most other industrialized economies, there is growing concern about the work capacity of older workers and their retention in the workforce against a background of population aging and efforts to prolong working lives. It is widely recognized that working later will be promoted by equipping industry and workers with instruments that can gauge working potential. Although policy makers in most industrialized nations now consider an extension of working lives as the basis of sustaining welfare systems and offsetting decline in the number of young labor market entrants, globalization and the competition this fosters present as a strong countervailing force for both government and employers. Certain groups, including older workers with few or outdated skills, and those with declining health may be particularly affected by job insecurity and long-term unemployment. Reconciling these seemingly countervailing tensions is a problem now facing a number of industrialized economies. A resilient older worker whose skills and capabilities can easily adjust as the requirements of the market shift would help maintain labor productivity growth even as populations age (Hagemann and Nicoletti 1989).
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    Planning for an ageing workforce
    TAYLOR, P ; Nygard, C-H ; Savinainen, M ; Kirsi, T (Tampere University Press, 2011)
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    Age Equality in Education and Training
    TAYLOR, P ; Peterson, P ; Baker, E ; McGaw, B (Elsevier, 2010)
    The issue of age and work has come to prominence in recent years, particularly among European Union countries, as policymakers have grown concerned with the stability of social welfare systems and labor supply due to population aging. Critical to the prolongation of working lives is the maintenance and development of skills and competences. However, older workers' participation in learning activities is rather lower than among younger ones. While this issue is being addressed by policy reforms in a number of countries, the response overall could be described as fragmented, although much is now known about what works for older learners.
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    Cross National Trends in Work and Retirement
    TAYLOR, P ; Dannefer, D ; Phillipson, C (SAGE, 2010)
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    Social governance in a global economy: Introduction to an evolving agenda
    Macdonald, K ; Marshall, S (Ashgate, 2010-12-01)
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    Experiments in globalizing justice: Emergent lessons and future trajectories
    Macdonald, K ; Marshall, S ; Macdonald, K ; Marshall, S (Ashgate Publishing, Limited, 2010-01-01)
    Civic, corporate and state-based governance initiatives that seek to promote norms of social or global ‘justice’ are achieving steadily rising levels of reach and influence in the global economy. More seem to be emerging every day, and their legitimacy as mechanisms of local, national and transnational regulation is achieving increasing acceptance in many quarters. They perform a range of functions – from delivering social services and facilitating economic redistribution and poverty reduction, to establishing, monitoring and enforcing social and labour standards within global production systems across large parts of the industrialized and developing worlds. Although the patterns of their diffusion are still limited and highly uneven, it is important to understand the forces that drive them, the mechanisms and actors through which they operate, and the factors that condition their success or failure.
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    Global democracy for a partially joined-up world: Toward a multi-level system of public power and democratic governance?
    Macdonald, K ; Archibugi, D ; Koenig-Archibugi, M ; Marchetti, R (Cambridge University Press, 2011-01-01)
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    Fair Labor Association
    Macdonald, K ; Hale, T ; Held, D (Polity Press, 2011)
    The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a US-based voluntary governance arrangement in which a number of high profile apparel and sportswear companies work together with universities and NGOs to promote compliance with core international labour standards within their supply chains. Since its establishment in the late 1990s, the Association has attracted significant attention and debate. Advocates of the Association regard it as a leader in developing innovative approaches to promoting compliance with international labour standards, pointing to its progress toward building independent auditing and complaints processes, and its efforts in recent years to strengthen the capacity building dimensions of its compliance program. In contrast, critics question both the Association’s accountability and its effectiveness, highlighting what they perceive to be its corporate-dominated governance structure, and its ongoing failure to achieve compliance with international labour standards within the supply chains of many FLA members.