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1038995
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b793365
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| Main Entry
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Riggs, Karen E.
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| Title & Author
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Granny @ work : : aging and new technology on the job in America /\ Karen E. Riggs.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2004.
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1 online resource (ix, 266 pages)
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020364199X
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: 0415965829
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: 9780203641996
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: 9780415965828
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0415965829
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0415965837
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9780415965835
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; The New, New Deal: The Post-Retirement Era; Lost Boomers in Space: Aging Workers and the Soft Digital Economy; An American (Techno) Legend: Women, Age, and the Harley-Davidson Workplace; "Granny, Go Ahead, You Won't Tear It Up": Central-City Elders Go Computing (with Jacquelyn Vinson and Amy Lauters); Use It or Lose It: The Self-Programmable Elder; Wizards, Space Cowboys, and (of course) Sean Connery: Film Images of Aging Workers; Who You Callin' Dude?: Magazine Advertisers Discover Older Workers.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Information technology.
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Older people-- Employment-- United States.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Labor.
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Information technology.
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Older people-- Employment.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor Industrial Relations.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.3/98/0973
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| LC Classification
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HD6280.R54 2004eb
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| Parallel Title
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Granny at work
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