Disability and Aging Discrimination Perspectives in Law and Psychology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wiener, Richard L. (Editor), Willborn, Steven L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Aging.; Law and Psychology.

Two things are certain in the contemporary workplace: the aging of employees, and negative attitudes toward them—especially those with disabilities—by younger colleagues and supervisors. Yet related phenomena seem less clear: how do negative stereotypes contribute to discrimination on the job? And h...

Table of Contents:

• Finding the Assumptions in the Law: Social Analytic Jurisprudence, Disabled, and Aging Workers
• Part I: Aging and Discrimination
• Ageism: The Strange Case of Prejudice Against the Older You
• Disability and Aging: Historical and Contemporary Views
• The Aging Workforce and Paid Time Off
• Baby Boomers at Work: Growing Older and Working More
• Part II: Disability and Discrimination
• The Relationship Between Disability Discrimination and Age Discrimination in Workers’ Compensation
• The Stigma of Disabilities and the Americans With Disabilities Act
• Age and Disability Within the Scope of American Discrimination Law
• Implicit Attitudes and Discrimination Against People with Physical Disabilities
• Cross Cultural Perspectives on Stigma
• Disability and Procedural Fairness in the Workplace
• Procedural Justice and the Structure of the Age and Disability Laws
• A Social Psychological Perspective of Disability Prejudice.