Overtime, Beth C. Truesdale
Overtime, Beth C. Truesdale
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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


Synopsis

America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement. Many policymakers think it's logical—almost inevitable—that Americans will delay retirement and spend more years in the paid labor force. But it's an assumption that doesn't match the reality faced by a large and growing proportion of Americans. Precarious working conditions, family caregiving responsibilities, poor health, and age discrimination will make it difficult or impossible for many to work longer.

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."

About Beth C. Truesdale

Beth C. Truesdale is a research fellow at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and a visiting scientist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Dr. Truesdale is a sociologist whose research focuses on inequalities in work and aging.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rodney on August 25, 2007

Whalen's poems balance religion, philosophy and cranky Zen insight with a casual, conversational Americanese in a way few of his more famous contemporaries could touch. He draws from a deep past that embraces everything from ancient Chinese verse to European classical music, but makes all the erudit......more

Goodreads review by Jim on January 30, 2021

Quite a comprehensive collection of Philip Whalen’s poetry. His first poetry was written in the 1950s. It quite a challenge to understand the references in a lot of the poems. You need to have quite a good idea about his life and times to appreciate some of it. His quirky outlook comes across well.......more

Goodreads review by Naomi on January 18, 2014

Many of the poets I read are writing explicitly within spiritual traditions and practices. Whalen's Buddhist-influenced poems are, like Gary Snyder's, accessible to those outside Buddhist traditions, and also very much ways of practicing mindfulness. This is a fine collection, and would be a nice ac......more

Goodreads review by Helen on January 16, 2008

perfect for when the baby has sucked your mind dry. Will bring you back to life, peace, and then even inspiration, if given a chance. So the cover photo of his later life as a monk is very suitable.......more

Goodreads review by Alison on October 09, 2015

Read most, but not all, of this for a poetry class. Enjoyed a lot of the poems, but had a hard time getting into many as well.......more