Featured Book: Age Discrimination by Employers

Title: Age Discrimination by Employers

Author: Kerry Segrave

Call Number: 331.398 Se38 2002

Location: CED Lib – Circulation Section

Synopsis:

In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, “Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man or woman of advanced years is too apt to be given to old-fashioned ways of doing things, and open to suspicion of having the unforgivable fault, in modern business, of slowness.”

Age discrimination has existed throughout the 20^th century, sometimes in the public eye and sometimes not. This book examines the employment sector in the United States: treatment by the media, the extent presented by businesses for refusing to hire older workers or for getting rid of them, and the responses of various levels of government. Some foreign data are used for comparison purposes.

Social historian Kerry Segrave also wrote Baldness: A Social History (1996), American Films Abroad (1997), American Television Abroad (1998), Tipping (1998), Movies at Home (1999), and Shoplifting: A Social History (2001), among other works all from McFarland. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.