Federica Previtali

Tampere University | UTA · School of Social Sciences and Humanities

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we face an exacerbation of ageism as well as a flourish of intergenerational solidarity. The use of chronological age is an unjustified threshold for the creation of public policies to control the spreading of the virus; doing so reinforces intrapersonal and interpersonal negative age stereotypes and violates older per...

Background: Supporting and retaining older workers has become a strategic management goal for companies, considering the ageing of the workforce and the prolongation of working lives. The relationship between health and work is especially crucial for older workers with manual tasks, considering the impact of long-standing health impairments in old...

This study investigates the ways in which age and gender play out on the LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies through an intersectionality lens. A discourse analysis of 437 LinkedIn posts (including visual images, captions, and comments) was conducted. This study found that the corporate discourse of diversity shaped the ways that age and gen...

This article investigates how age categorisation and prejudicial use of age are mobilised in talk by job applicants during job interviews and how recruiters affiliate with these. The institutional goal of recruitment is to ensure an unbiased process and evaluation, nevertheless, ageism against older workers emerges as unchallenged and culturally ac...

This policy report aims to summarise the findings and knowledge gained by ESRs from the ITN EuroAgeism Work Package one into a coherent series of recommendations for policy on ageism in the labour market. The report is based on our extensive empirical and literature-based research and knowledge gained during the project on the roots, magnitude, for...

Ageism in the manager–employee relationship is one of the main obstacles towards an age-inclusive workplace. Ageism in the labour market is rooted in the use of age as an organising principle of employment relations. This article contributes to the study of ageism in the workplace by investigating how stages of life, as normalised age categories, a...

This article contributes to the ongoing debate around the need for a new United Nations convention on the human rights of older persons. It explores new forms of ageism that have so far been overlooked in the discussion and explores the value of a new treaty from a symbolic point of view. Analyzing the instrumentalization of older persons by ageing...

In recent years ageism has received increase international attention. In 2016 the UN dedicated the International Day of Older Persons to the fight against ageism and the World Heath Organization launched a campaign to combat ageism. This growing interest is also illustrated by the establishment of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing, and the...

Background and objectives: This review investigates the contribution of discursive approaches to the study of ageism in working life. It looks back on the 50 years of research on ageism and the body of research produced by the discursive turn in social science and gerontology. Research design and methods: This study followed the five-step scopin...

With an aging work population, the organizational health management and the workers’ capability to balance health needs and work demand effectively, the Work-Health Balance (WHB), are crucial elements for the individual, social, and corporate success and wellbeing. The aim of this study is to identify groups of older workers with different profiles...

The aging of the population has increased the prevalence of older workers. By 2035, the 50-64 years old cohort will represent the 28% of the workforce. The retention of older workers is fundamental to avoid labor shortage in organizations. One strategic factor to maintain older workers at work is to give them the chance to balance health and work n...