Victor Marshall

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Research

Dr. Marshall's research interests and publications are in the area of aging and the life course with particular attention to older workers, the changing nature of the retirement transition, work and health, public policy, and social theory. He has been the principal investigator of more than 30 grants in various aspects of aging, including transitions from work to retirement as a social determinant of health, and human resource management in relation to the aging of the labor force. He is currently director of the US team in the Workforce Aging in the New Economy project (US-WANE), which studies aging workforce issues in the information technology sector in the US, Canada, Australia and the European Union. He has also conducted research for Veterans Affairs Canada concerning the working careers of discharged Canadian Forces personnel. He serves on the editorial boards of four journals.

Recent Publications

Recent Books

• Carol D. Ryff and Victor W. Marshall (Eds.) (1999). The Self and Society in Aging Processes. New York: Springer. 491 pp.

• Victor W. Marshall, Walter Heinz, Helga Krueger and Anil Verma (Eds.) (2001). Restructuring Work and the Life Course. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 544 pp.

• Walter Heinz and Victor W. Marshall (Eds.) (2003), Social Dynamics of the Life Course: Sequences, Institutions and Interrelations. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 306 pp.

• Julie A. McMullin and Victor W. Marshall. (Eds,) (2010).  Aging and Working in the New Economy: Careers and Changing Structures in Small and Medium Size Information Technology Firms. Camberly UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishing

Recent Journal Articles

• V.W. Marshall, S. Rathbun-Grubb, & J. G. Marshall (2009). Using the life course perspective to study library and information science careers. Library Trends 58 (2): 127-140.

• Joanne G. Marshall, Victor W. Marshall, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Deborah Barreau, Barbara B. Moran, Paul Solomon, Susan Rathbun-Grubb, & Cheryl Thompson (2009).Where are they now? Results of a career survey of library and information science graduates.  Library Trends 58 (2): 141-154.

• Jennifer Craft Morgan, Joanne G. Marshall, Victor W. Marshall,& Cheryl A. Thompson (2009). Designing and implementing a career retrospective web-based survey of Library and Information Science  graduates. Library Trends 58 (2): 155-166.

• Joanne G. Marshall, Victor W. Marshall, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Deborah Barreau, Barbara Moran, Paul Solomon,  Susan Rathbun-Grubb, & Cheryl A. Thompson (2009). Where will they be in the future? Implementing a model for ongoing career tracking of library and information science graduates. Library Trends 58 (2): 301-315.

• Cutchin, M.P., V.W. Marshall, & R.M. Aldrich (2010). Moving to a continuing care retirement community: Occupations in the therapeutic landscape process.  Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 25: 117-132

• Victor W. Marshall (in press for April 2011). A life course perspective on information technology
  work.  Journal of Applied Gerontology 30 (2).

• Philippa J. Clarke, Victor W. Marshall, James House, & Paula Lanz (in press). The social structuring of mental health over the adult life course: Advancing theory in the sociology of aging. Social Forces.

• Joanne Gard Mashall, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Susan Rathbun-Grubb, Victor W. Marshall, Deborah Barreau, Barbara B. Moran, Paul Solomon, & Cheryl A. Thompson (2010). Toward a shared approach to program evaluation and alumni career tracking: Results from the Workforce Issues in Library and InformationScience 2 Study. Library Trends 59 (Summer/Fall):30-42.

Recent Other Articles and Book Chapters

• Victor W. Marshall (2009). Theory informing public policy: The life course perspective as a policy tool. Pp. 573-592 in Vern L. Bengtson, Merril Silverstein, Norella Putney, and Daphn Gans (Eds.), Handbook of Theories of Aging. 2nd Edition. New York: Springer

• Julie A. McMullin & Victor W. Marshall (2010).  Aging and working in the new economy. Pp. 1-22            in Julie A. McMullin and Victor W. Marshall (eds.), Aging and  Working in the New Economy: Careers and Changing Structures in Small and Medium Size Information Technology Firms. Camberly: Edward Elgar.

• Victor W. Marshall & Julie A. McMullin (2010). Work and the life course in a new economy field. Pp. 225-237 in Julie A. McMullin and Victor W. Marshall (eds.), Aging and  Working in the New Economy: Careers and Changing Structures in Small and Medium Size Information Technology Firms. Camberly: Edward Elgar.

• Victor W. Marshall, Jennifer Craft Morgan, and Sara B. Haviland (2010).  Making a life in IT: Jobs and careers in small and medium size information technology firms.  Pp. 23-38 in Julie A. McMullin and Victor W. Marshall (eds.), Aging and  Working in the New Economy: Careers and Changing Structures in Small and Medium Size Information Technology Firms. Camberly: Edward Elgar.

• Sara B. Haviland, Jennifer Craft Morgan, and Victor W. Marshall (2010). New careers in the New Economy: Redefining career development in a post-internal labor market industry. Pp. 39-62 in J.A. McMullin and Victor W. Marshall (Eds.), Aging and  Working in the New Economy: Careers and Changing Structures in Small and Medium Size Information Technology Firms. Camberly: Edward Elgar.

• Victor W. Marshall & J.A. McMullin (2010). The life course perspective and public policy formation: Observations on the Canadian case. Pp. 732-747 in Gerhard Naegele (Hrsg.) (2009).  Grundzüge einer sozialen Lebenslaufpolitik. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

• Victor W. Marshall and Joanne Gard Marshall (2010). New patterns of aging: What do the numbers say? Pp. 3-14 in Pauline Rothstein and Diantha D. Schull (Eds.), Longevity and Libraries: Unexpected Voices. Washington, DC.: ALA Editions.

• Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. Clarke (2010). Agency and social structure in aging and life course research. Pp. 294-305 in Dale Dannefer and Chris Phillipson (Eds.), International Handbook of Social Gerontology. London: Sage

• Victor W. Marshall (in press). Global aging and families: Some policy concerns about the global aging perspective. In Merril Silverstein (Ed.), From Generation to Generation: Continuity and Discontinuity in Aging Families. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Victor W. Marshall & Amber Wells (in press). Generational relations and the workplace: A critique of the concept. In Philip Taylor (Ed.), Older Workers in an Aging Society: Critical Topics in Research and Policy. Camberly: Edward Elgar.

• Victor W. Marshall & Vern L. Bengtson (in press) . Theoretical perspectives for studying the sociology of aging and the life course.  In  Richard A. Settersten, Jr., & Jacqueline L. Angel (Ed.), Handbook of Sociology of Aging.  New York: Springer.

See Dr Marshall's full CV for more publications. A number of his papers are online via AGELIB.