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Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
PublicAffairs
June 2007
On Sale: June 11, 2007
255 pages
ISBN: 1586484834
EAN: 9781586484835
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The boomers are rejecting conventional notions of retirement
and crossing into a new stage of work--and their energy
could transform what work means for all Americans. The movement of millions of sixty-somethings into a new
phase in their working lives constitutes one of the most
significant social trends in this country in nearly half a
century. Encore describes the competing visions for work
that are already lining up to capture the hearts and minds,
and the time, of waves of baby boomers who are not content,
or affluent enough, to spend their next twenty or thirty
years on the golf course. Baby boomers are searching for a
calling in the second half of life; they are moving beyond
midlife yet refusing to phase out or fade away. If the old dream of the Golden Years was the Freedom from
Work, the dream of this new wave is the Freedom to Work--in
new ways, on new terms, to new ends. As their numbers begin
to swell, these individuals hold the potential not only to
transform work in America, but to create a society that
balances the joys and responsibilities of contribution
across the generations--in other words, one that works
better for everyone.
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