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In an time when people live much longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the worthiness of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned manufacturing plant that was founded in 1932 and makes fine needles, stainless steel tubing and pipes, and custom fabricated parts. Within its unusual business design, the company seeks out older workers; the median get older of the employees is seventy-four. In Retirement living on the Collection, Caitrin Lynch explores what this strange company's commitment to a elderly workforce opportinity for the workplace, the workers, the city, and society more generally. Benefiting from nearly five many years of fieldwork at Vita Needle, Lynch offers an intimate portrait of the individuals who work there, a nuanced reason of the business's hiring tactics, and a cogent research of the way the workers' experiences can inform our understanding of aging and work in the twenty-first hundred years. As an in-depth study of a singular work environment, rooted in the initial insights associated with an anthropologist who specializes in the world of work, this booklet provides a sustained focus on ideals and meanings - with serious results for the broader assumptions our society has about aging and employment.
