Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work

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1. Introduction – the pervasive nature of inequalities
PART I APPROACHES TO INEQUALITY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
2. Diversity ideologies and practices in Sub-Saharan Africa
3. The propagation of workplace inequalities through sexual- and gender-identity normativities: understanding heteronormativity, homonormativity, cisnormativity, and transnormativity in organisations
4. Migrant workers and precarity in neoliberal times
5. White feminism in organisation studies: a calling out
6. Autoethnography as a research approach – bringing the self into research on workplace inequalities
PART II REGULATION AND VOLUNTARISM IN WORKPLACE INEQUALITIES
7. Inequalities in the labour market and workplaces in China: the role of the state
8. The Federal Character Principle and the politics of ethnic representation in Nigeria’s public sector
9. State regulation and quotas – international perspectives on the use of gender quotas for corporate boards
10. Religion or belief legal cases in the workplace
11. The pay ‘transparency agenda’: toward regulation or voluntarism to expose gender pay gaps in the UK and the US
12. Women’s representation and the gender pay gap: rank, institutional research intensity and ethnicity in UK business schools
13. Using public procurement to promote equality in employment: assessment of the evidence from Australia, South Africa and the UK
14. The European Union, the member states and equality – an uneasy relationship?
PART III CULTURE, ORGANISATIONS AND INEQUALITY
15. Inequalities and the media: spread and reception of hate speech against migrants and refugees in social media
16. Transforming leadership emergence through equality, diversity and inclusion
17. Women’s long-term social movement participation – an American case
18. Leadership, Africa and the South African context
19. Cracks in diversity: pink money, depoliticization, and conservatism in Brazil
20. Disability and work inequalities
21. Black women and inequality in the workplace
22. The political case for diversity: managing difference in Jewish diaspora organisations
23. Financial wellbeing and ethnicity
PART IV CONTEXT, OCCUPATIONS, CAREERS AND INEQUALITIES AT WORK
24. Winners and losers of digitalisation of work
25. The original gig economy: gendered precarious working in the UK music industry
26. Medical careers in the NHS: a case of segregation and disadvantage
27. An intersectional study of women’s practice of entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka
28. Safe and suitable yet unequal for women: understanding the inequalities in the hiring process in the Indian software industry
PART V CRISIS, COVID, INEQUALITIES AND CHANGE
29. Future of working at home
30. Racism, COVID-19 and the racial patterning of society – the perfect storm to highlight racial inequalities
31. Entering a frightening Kafkaesque world during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown: fears and changes for disabled people
32. Client-facing work and homeworking: the case of auditors
33. What about the formal workers? Informality in formal employment and social protection gaps in developing countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
PART VI CLIMATE CHANGE AND INEQUALITIES
34. Climate change, inequality and work in the construction industry
35. Green is not White: giving voice to Indigenous, Black and racially marginalized workers in the environmental justice movement
36. Climate crisis and labour market inequalities: a socio-ecological fix approach to energy transition in Greece
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