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AGE AND WORK : FROM THE STUDIES ON AGEING IN WORK TO A PSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO THE LATE CAREER The crisis of pension funding, together with the problem of ageing of the workforce, have given a prominent role to the analysis of psychological and social processes marking the last stages of the working career. In this framework, the present article aims at : —  first, suggesting a critical overview of the main studies on ageing in organizations and, more generally, on the relationships between age and work ; —  secondly, backing up the relevance of a psychosocial approach to the issue of old workers, which cannot simply be limited to ageing in work. Such an approach has not yet been developed in depth. Il implies an analysis of socialisation and identity restructuring processes that characterise the transition at the late career.