Race', Employment and Equal Opportunities

Towards a Political Economy and an Agenda for the 1990s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3486702
AutoresNick Jewson (University of Leicester, University of Plymouth), David Mason (0000-0002-1382-4688, University of Leicester, University of Plymouth)
Ano1994
Volume42
Fascículo4
Páginas591-617
Data de publicação1994-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-954x.1994.tb00102.x
OpenAlexW2045916483
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas17

This paper attempts to provide a broad overview of the recent history of equal opportunities, particularly of work-place policies and programmes directed towards ethnic minorities. It identifies three main stages in the recent history of equal opportunities at the work-place and seeks to connect these with an analysis of the economic arrangements and dominant political philosophies characteristic of each phase. The paper concludes by noting that there is currently a widespread view that equal opportunities policies represents a happy coincidence of principle and expediency for firms in the 1990s. It suggests that whilst a number of trends with the potential to realise this promise can be discerned, other outcomes are possible. Writing in mid-1992, it remains to be seen whether the new rhetoric of citizenship and business efficiency can secure both the continuing commitment of those with the power to make changes and the enduring support of the disadvantaged

Citizenship · Disadvantaged · Ethnic group · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Rhetoric · Sociology · Work (physics) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy