Julie McMullin is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Western Ontario and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. A former secretary-treasurer for the Canadian Association on Gerontology, her recentwork examines social inequality in paid work, especially in relation to older workers. She was the principalinvestigator on the international, Workforce Aging in the New Economy project (WANE), from which she edited (with Victor W. Marshall) one collection that has just been published by Edward Elgar Press entitled, Aging and Working in the New Economy: Changing Career Structures in Small IT Firms. A second edited book from the same study, Age, Gender, and Work: Small Information Technology Firms in the New Economy is forthcoming with the University of British Columbia Press. And, a second edition of her book, Understanding Social Inequality: Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada (2010), was recently published by Oxford University Press.

Email: mcmullin@uwo.ca