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Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work

Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work

Gatta, Mary

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Social Inequality

EconomicsLaborGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0804799954
ISBN13: 9780804799959
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 2 2018
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

America is witnessing a retirement crisis. As the labor market shifts to the gig economy and new strains restrict social security, the American Dream of secure retirement becomes further out of reach for up to half of the population. In Waiting on Retirement, Mary Gatta takes the case of restaurant workers to examine the experiences of low-wage workers who are middle-aged, aging, and past retirement age. She deftly explores the many factors shaping what it means to grow old in economic insecurity as her subjects face race- and gender-based inequities, health hazards associated with their work, and the bitter reality that the older they get the fewer professional opportunities are available to them. More importantly, Gatta demonstrates that these problems are pervasive, as more industries adopt the worst workplace practices of service work. In light of these trends, we must consider the devastating effects on already vulnerable Americans because, as Gatta contends, this crisis does not need to be inevitable. Taking as a model the small percentage of good restaurant jobs that exist, she ultimately offers incisive commentary on what can be done to stave off this bleak future.

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