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A central concern was to examine the extent of autonomy, choice and control in the lives of older portfolio workers.
Although there are sceptics,2 the critical realist's view of the social world helps us comprehend the experiences of older, portfolio workers.
Among the ' worker' interviewees, the perspectives on retirement of the self-employed were close to those of the self-employed ' professionals' and ' portfolio workers'.
Instead, they regarded retirement as a time to engage primarily in the type of work that they found enjoyable, a perspective reflected amongst our own ' portfolio workers'.
All the ' portfolio workers ' in the sample lived alone and needed, more than most, to maintain their financial independence - only two had paid off their mortgages.
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