

Overtime
America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer
Author: Beth C. Truesdale, Lisa F. Berkman
Narrator: Robin McAlpine
Unabridged: 13 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 01/24/2023
Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Gerontology, Sociology
Synopsis
Overtime offers a current, revelatory corrective to our understanding of the future of the American workforce and aging. Experts across economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and epidemiology examine how increasing economic and social inequalities, coupled with changes across generations or birth cohorts, call for a rethinking of the working-longer policy framework. Together, they argue that policies affecting work must be considered alongside policies affecting retirement and provide a path forward to achieve better retirement security for all Americans.
Drawing on the deep and varied expertise of its contributors, Overtime critically questions the conventional thinking of policy makers in this space to chart a more likely course for older Americans in the twenty-first century—one less reductive than simply "working longer."