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SUMMARY:MICRA 2019 Annual Lecture on Extending Working Lives: the implica
 tions for winners and losers in the changed UK policy landscape
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DESCRIPTION:MICRA is pleased to announce Professor Sarah Vickerstaff will
  be hosting the MICRA 2019 Annual Lecture on Extending Working Lives: th
 e implications for winners and losers in the changed UK policy landscape
 \nIn policy debates it is commonly claimed that older workers are enteri
 ng a new period of choice and control with the protection of age discrim
 ination legislation and the abolition of mandatory retirement ages. Howe
 ver these positive policy changes have also been accompanied by less enc
 ouraging developments: for example rising state pension ages and retrenc
 hment of welfare benefits\, especially around fitness to work. Pressures
  to work longer\, combined with limited alternative employment prospects
  and inadequate retirement incomes\, even for those in relatively secure
  work can give rise to a heightened sense of precarity. We may be enteri
 ng a new era of two nations in retirement to understand this a new theor
 etical model for understanding precarity is suggested that locates preca
 rity as a lived experience\, which is influenced by the intersection bet
 ween precarious jobs\, precarious welfare states and precarious househol
 ds.\nSarah is professor of Work and Employment at the School of Social p
 olicy\, Sociology and Social research\, University of Kent. She is an in
 ternationally recognised researcher into paid work in later life. In the
  last 15 years her research on older workers and retirement has been fun
 ded by research councils\, charities and the UK Government. She recently
  led an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC/MRC) funded research 
 consortium undertaking a mixed method study of: Uncertain Futures: Manag
 ing Late Career Transitions and Extended Working Life. She has edited 3 
 books\, written 5 reports\, 25 journal articles and many book chapters i
 n this field. She is Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. In
  2017-2018 she was a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Women an
 d Equalities Committee’s Older people and employment inquiry.\nThe event
  will start with tea and coffee in the foyer as attendees arrive at 17:0
 0 with the lecture commencing in Theatre B at 17:30. We will then host a
  wine reception from 19:00-20:00.
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LOCATION:Theatre B \, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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