Working lives

Working Lives & Adult Education

The case is made for a politically and culturally engaged critical pedagogy of work, placing it within the historical legacy of adult education. Prompted by the Work and Learning Network initiative at the University of Alberta, this paper marks a renewal of the author’s interest in the discourse on education and the world of work. The critical commentaries on education and work in Critical Cros...

Does living longer in good health facilitate longer working lives? The relationship between disability and working lives.

BACKGROUND Improvements in life expectancy have fuelled debates about the statutory retirement age in many European countries. This article contributes to this debate by investigating how changes in disability may influence both employment outcomes and disability-free life expectancy. METHODS We used data from the European Community Household Panel to estimate the impact of disability inciden...

Nber Working Paper Series Does Medicare save Lives?

The health insurance characteristics of the population changes sharply at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. But do these changes matter for health? We address this question using data on over 400,000 hospital admissions for people who are admitted through the emergency room for "non-deferrable" conditions -diagnoses with the same daily admission rates on weekends and weekdays....

Turning Points in the Lives of Chinese and Indian Women Leaders Working toward Social Justice

Institutional change has a human face. This paper explores how a select group of women in China and India experienced economic and political turmoil and why they chose to become change agents. Through in-depth interviews with 40 women from NGOs, government agencies and private business, four broad moments in the evolution of a change agent are identified and discussed: (1) awareness of a double...

The Working Lives of Prison Managers: Exploring agency and structure in the late modern prison