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Racism and equal opportunity policies in the 1980s / edited by Richard Jenkins and John Solomos.

Contributor(s): Series: Comparative ethnic and race relations seriesPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxiii, 244 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521389682 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.6 JEN 2nd
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Contents:
Contents Introduction to the second edition Contributors page vii xix Acknowledgements Part One. The law, politics and equal opportunity 1 Racism, equal opportunity and public policy JOHN SOLOMOS and RICHARD JENKINS 3 2 Racial inequality and the limits of law 14 LAURENCE LUSTGARTEN 3 The politics of anti-discrimination legislation: planned social reform or symbolic politics? 30 JOHN SOLOMOS 4 Religious discrimination and differentiation in Northern Ireland: the case of the Fair Employment Agency JOHN DARBY 54 Part Two. Dimensions of equal opportunity 5 'Equality of opportunity' and inequality of outcome: the MSC, ethnic minorities and training policy 73 MALCOLM CROSS 6 The space between words: local authorities and the concept of equal opportunities KEN YOUNG 93 V 7 Equal opportunity in the private sector, the limits of voluntarism 110 RICHARD JENKINS 8 Monitoring equal opportunities policies: principles and practice NICK JEWSON and DAVID MASON 125 9 Training and organisational change: the target racism GLORIA LEE 141 10 Unequal comrades: trade unions, equal opportunity and racism 160 JOHN WRENCH Part Three. The prospects for equal opportunity 11 Equal opportunity in the context of high levels of unemployment 189 ED RHODES and PETER BRAHAM 12 Equal opportunity and the limits of the law: some themes 210 RICHARD JENKINS and JOHN SOLOMOS Notes Bibliography Index 221 228 240
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Contents

Introduction to the second edition

Contributors

page vii

xix

Acknowledgements

Part One. The law, politics and equal opportunity

1 Racism, equal opportunity and public policy

JOHN SOLOMOS and RICHARD JENKINS

3

2 Racial inequality and the limits of law

14

LAURENCE LUSTGARTEN

3 The politics of anti-discrimination legislation: planned social reform or symbolic politics?

30

JOHN SOLOMOS

4 Religious discrimination and differentiation in Northern Ireland:

the case of the Fair Employment Agency

JOHN DARBY

54

Part Two. Dimensions of equal opportunity

5 'Equality of opportunity' and inequality of outcome: the MSC,

ethnic minorities and training policy

73

MALCOLM CROSS

6 The space between words: local authorities and the concept of equal opportunities

KEN YOUNG

93

V
7 Equal opportunity in the private sector, the limits of voluntarism

110

RICHARD JENKINS 8 Monitoring equal opportunities policies: principles and practice

NICK JEWSON and DAVID MASON

125

9 Training and organisational change: the target racism GLORIA LEE

141

10 Unequal comrades: trade unions, equal opportunity and racism

160

JOHN WRENCH

Part Three. The prospects for equal opportunity

11

Equal opportunity in the context of high levels of unemployment

189

ED RHODES and PETER BRAHAM

12 Equal opportunity and the limits of the law: some themes

210

RICHARD JENKINS and JOHN SOLOMOS

Notes

Bibliography

Index

221

228

240