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Dr. Ellie Berger

Faculty of Arts & Science - Sociology, Assistant Professor (Sabbatical)
office: A328
email: ellieb@nipissingu.ca
tel: 705-474-3450
ext: 4141
fax: 705-474-1947
web: Ellie Berger Website

Education:

BA, McMaster University
MSc, University of Toronto
PhD, McMaster University

Areas of Specialization:

​Sociology of aging, work and health

Research Interests:

​Aging workforce, retirement and pensions, age and gender discrimination, mandatory retirement, gender and work history, unemployment

Current & Future Research:

Challenges for Canada’s Retirement Income System

‘Older’ Workers: The Negotiation of Age Discrimination and Identity in the Job Search Process

Employers’ Accounts of the Hiring Process and the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement

‘Successful’ Older Workers: Strategies to Secure and Maintain Employment in Later Life

Publications:

Berger, E.D. & Ricci, C. Exploited by Universities: Part-Time Workers as Victims. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 18, 1-9, 2011.

Jaworski, B., Parker, O., Saba, T., Berger, E., & Baldwin, R. Challenges for Canada’s Retirement Income System: Summary Employer Pension and Savings Plan Survey Report. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, July 18, 2011.

Berger, E.D. Book Review: Aging and Working in the New Economy: Changing Career Structures in Small IT Firms (2010, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.) Julie Ann McMullin and Victor Marshall's (eds.). Canadian Journal on Aging, 30(2), 304-306, 2011.

Berger, E.D. Managing Age Discrimination: An Examination of the Techniques Used When Seeking Employment. Gerontologist, 49(3), 317-332, 2009.

Berger, E.D. & Ricci, C. Part-Time Faculty as Victims-- Exploited by Universities: Markers, Teaching Assistants, and Sessionals. In C. Ricci, Poisoned Apples: An Insider Exposes the Victimization, Abuse, Politics, Associated Pain and SOLUTIONS to our Educational Crisis (pp. 82-93), 2007. http://www.nipissingu.ca/education/carlor/books/Poisoned_Apples.pdf.

Berger, E.D., ‘Aging’ Identities: Degradation and Negotiation in the Search for Employment, Journal of Aging Studies, 20(4), 303-316, 2006.

McMullin, J.A. & Berger, E.D. Gendered Ageism / Age(ed) Sexism: The Case of Unemployed Older Workers. In T.M. Calasanti & K.F. Slevin (eds.), Age Matters: Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking (pp. 201-223). New York: Routledge, 2006.

Ricci, C. & Berger, E., Exams and the Learning Environment, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, 18(2), 45-47, 2005.

Berger, E.D. & Denton, M.A., The Interplay Between Women’s Life Course Work Patterns and Financial Planning for Later Life, Canadian Journal on Aging, 23(suppl. 1), S99-S113, 2004.

Berger, E.D. Older Workers’ Experiences with Age Discrimination: The Degradation of Identity, in D. Pawluch, W. Shaffir, & C. Miall (eds.) Proceedings of the Second Annual Colloquium on Qualitative Research (pp. 73-84). Department of Sociology, McMaster University, 2000.

Joshi, A. & Berger, E. (eds.) Aging Workforce, Income Security, and Retirement: Policy and Practical Implications. Hamilton, Ont.: Office of Gerontological Studies, McMaster University, 1996.

Courses Taught:

  • SOCI 2015: Classical Sociological Theory
  • SOCI 2036: Introduction to Social Gerontology
  • SOCI 3156: Women and Age
  • SOCI 3176: Age, Health, and Work I
  • SOCI 3177: Age, Health, and Work II
  • SOCI 4295: Selected Topics in Sociology



 
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