To Örebro University

In this chapter, I place the central concerns of the WeAll project – the social and economic sustainability of future working life – in a broad context. The question of how to contexualise the social and economic sustainability of working life and avoid methodological nationalism is addressed, by discussion of: i) social and economic sustainability of working life as a contemporary and high profile international issue; ii) some national specificities of Finland, making the familiar strange; and iii) moving towards transnational perspectives as a way of broadening the view on processes that bear on the social and economic sustainability of future working life.