Age Ineq Workpalce

Question 1

Ritzer

Answer 1

Young people are often on zero hour contracts and in what Ritzer calls ‘McJobs’ (unstimulating, low-wage job with few benefits, especially in a service industry).

Question 2

Barron and Norris

Answer 2

Suggests that young people and the elderly are more likely to be found in the secondary labour market which is defined by low pay, low status, a lack of chance of promotion and few fringe benefits e.g. no access to private pensions etc.

Question 3

Johnson

Answer 3

Suggested that ageism occurs in the workplace in UK. Johnson suggests that ageism is institutionalised and embedded in practices and society. Ageism in the workplace is expressed through the stereotypical assumptions about a person’s competency to do a job in relation to their age. Older people find it much more difficult to get a job as they get older and face stereotypes in the workplace.

Question 4

Willis

Answer 4

Working class youths see their futures as working in basic manual labour jobs like their fathers therefore they do not aspire for more.

Question 5

National pensioners convention

Answer 5

1 in 5 (2.5 million) older people live below the poverty line. The majority of these are females living alone.

Question 6

Who

Answer 6

Ritzer, Barron and Norris , Johnson, Willis, national pensioners convention