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America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement.
Many policymakers think it's logical-almost inevitable-that
Americans will delay retirement and spend more years in the paid
labor force. But it's an assumption that doesn't match the reality
faced by a large and growing proportion of Americans. Though in
many ways today's middle-aged adults are less financially prepared
for retirement than today's retirees, precarious working
conditions, family caregiving responsibilities, poor health, and
age discrimination will make it difficult or impossible for many to
work longer. Overtime offers a current, revelatory corrective to
our understanding of the future of the American workforce and
aging. Experts across economics, sociology, psychology, political
science, and epidemiology examine how increasing economic and
social inequalities, coupled with changes across generations or
birth cohorts, call for a rethinking of the working-longer policy
framework. The contributors examine trends and inequalities in
employment, health, family dynamics, and politics, helping to shed
light on the challenges faced by traditionally marginalized social
groups while showing that our society's responses to an aging
workforce affect us all. Together, they argue that policies
affecting work must be considered alongside policies affecting
retirement and provide a path forward to achieve better retirement
security for all Americans. Drawing on the deep and varied
expertise of its contributors, Overtime critically questions the
conventional thinking of policy makers in this space to chart a
more likely course for older Americans in the twenty-first
century-one less reductive than simply "working longer."
Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences
-- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of
health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social
Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has
fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public
health. This much-awaited second edition elevates the field again,
first by codifying the last decade of research, then by extending
it to examine how public policies impact health. The new edition
includes: * 11 fully updated chapters, including entries on the
links between health and discrimination, income inequality, social
networks, and emotion * Four all-new chapters on the role of
policies in shaping health, including how to translate evidence
into action with multi-level interventions * Updated references,
detailing the best research over the last two decades The result is
a bold, brilliant text that will serve the new world of
epidemiology in which scientists both observe health and design
interventions to improve it. Social Epidemiology again sets an
intellectual agenda and provides an essential foundation for those
interested in social determinants of health around the world.
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