Granny @ Work: Aging and New Technology on the Job in America (Paperback)

by Karen E. Riggs (Author) "This book explores the contours of old age as it meets up with new technologies in contexts of work..." (more)
Key Phrases: elder characters, ageist practices, aging workers, Baby Boomers, United States, African American (more...)

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Extremely well-written, accessible, and logically argued....This book will fill a key, but essentially overlooked area in studies of technology, media, and culture....Riggs considers human subjects and communities in a manner that might actually change the ways that scholars generalize about the impact of new technologies.
–John T. Caldwell, UCLA

Extremely well-written, accessible, and logically argued....This book will fill a key, but essentially overlooked area in studies of technology, media, and culture....Riggs considers human subjects and communities in a manner that might actually change the ways that scholars generalize about the impact of new technologies.
–John T. Caldwell, UCLA



Product Description
The advancing age of Baby Boomers has generated an upsurge of older workers. And as this aging workforce encounters radical technological changes, it faces increasingly tumultuous work environments.

In Granny @ Work, Karen E. Riggs--a renowned expert on aging-shows how employers, software engineers, and public policy makers are thinking about the roles older adults might play in the workplace of the future-and asks whether those on the front lines of corporate life are actually looking out for the interests of a graying workforce. She also examines dominant beliefs about aging and technology as seen in popular culture, ranging from films like Cocoon and Space Cowboys to specialty websites and magazines aimed at older workers.

Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research-for example, people over the age of 60 spend more time on the Internet than people of any other age group-and trenchant cultural critique, she forces us to confront the deeply entrenched ageism in today's technology-driven workplace.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415965837
• ISBN-13: 978-0415965835
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,344,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Skim It, January 28, 2006

By	James B. DeSimone "Jim" (Collingswood, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Interesting information. Good points raised and important issues discussed.

Did I say the same thing three times? That's what I felt about this book. Points were well-taken, but picayune, unnecessary details were not left out.

You'll do your best just to skim.