@article{864477,
      recid = {864477},
      author = {Coleman, Joseph,},
      title = {Unfinished work : the struggle to build an aging American  workforce /},
      pages = {1 online resource (257 pages) :},
      abstract = {"The forces driving the first decades of the 21st  century--globalization, technology, and unprecedented  wealth mixed with jarring economic instability--are pushing  the day of retirement later and later in life. The era of  the aging worker is here. From the rice paddies of Japan to  the heart of the American rust-belt, veteran international  correspondent Joseph Coleman takes readers inside the lives  of aging workers, exploring the factories, offices, and  fields where they toil and the societies in which they  live, giving the reader a front-row seat to the global  older worker revolution.  Profiles of individuals bring to  life Coleman's exploration of how the United States--along  with many countries around the world--deal with the rise of  aging workforces. Throughout these stories, the author  gives advice on how societies can best benefit from and  assist their increasingly older population. Readers will  come to know: --Michel Wattree, a retired French trucker  who has found a second life as an elementary school bus  driver and still nurses dreams of driving America's storied  Route 66. --The aging crew of Japan's Yamashita Kogyosho,  where for half a century they have crafted the world's  fastest trains with their bare hands and hammers,  exemplifies Japan's adaptive employment strategies that  have helped the country deal with one of the oldest  demographic compositions in the world. --Rita Hall, an  unemployed hospital worker from Akron, Ohio, who hopes that  a job training program will save her from spending the rest  of her golden years in poverty-a fear shared by many who  will far outlive their retirement savings.  Amidst the  stories of how these works are working hard to adapt,  Unfinished Work probes the struggles of companies either  unable or unwilling to accommodate the aging of their  workforces and the quandaries of governments and  policymakers eager to control pension pay-outs to retiring  boomers, yet unsure how to keep them on the job. What  emerges is a compassionate but clear-eyed portrait of a  world in the midst of a slow-motion aging revolution that  will have vast consequences for present and coming  generations"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/864477},
}