This title was first published in 2001. This collection of essays on the the subject of ageism in work and employment arose out of the international conference held at Stirling University in July 1996.

I: Introduction; 1: Introduction: the challenge of longer and healthier lives; II: The problem and its causes; 2: Ageism, early exit, and the rationality of age-based discrimination; 3: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’: some thoughts on paternalism, ageism, management and society; 4: The plateaued manager: the anatomy of an ageist stereotype; 5: Discrimination by age: the organizational response; 6: Is retirement sustainable?; 7: Ageism without frontiers; III: The experience and practice of age discrimination in employment; 8: Ageism in retailing: myth or reality?; 9: Ageism, young academics and the buffalo stance; 10: Ageism and arm’s length management: the voice of experience; 11: Anti-ageist legislation: the Australian experience; 12: Old enough to know better: age stereotypes in New Zealand; 13: Ageism and work in the EU: a comparative review of corporate innovation and practice; 14: Ageism in the ‘Quarter Acre, Pavlova Paradise’- will she be right? *; IV: Remedies and prospects; 15: Older workers and the cult of youth: ageism in public policy; 16: Fitness for work: the effects of ageing and the benefits of exercise; 17: Ageism and unemployment: practical remedies from secondment programmes in small and medium-sized enterprises; 18: Managing the third age workforce: a review and agenda for research; V: Conclusion; 19: Therefore get wisdom