Tessa Wright and Hazel Conley and the contributors 2011
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Gower handbook of discrimination at work.
Discrimination in employment Great Britain. Diversity in the workplace Great
Britain. Discrimination in employment Law and legislation Great Britain.
I. Handbook of discrimination at work II. Wright, Tessa. III. Conley, Hazel.
658.3008-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wright, Tessa.
Gower handbook of discrimination at work / Tessa Wright and Hazel Conley.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-566-08898-8 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4094-2629-5 (ebook)
Discrimination in employment Law and legislation Great Britain. I. Conley, Hazel.
II. Title. III. Title: Handbook of discrimination at work.
KD3102.W75 2011
344.4101133 dc22
2010046912
ISBN 9780566088988 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409426295 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781409459095 (ebk-ePUB)
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About the Editors
Tessa Wright
Tessa Wright has written and researched in the areas of discrimination and equality at work for many years. During her 12 years as an equality researcher and editor at the Labour Research Department, she wrote and researched widely on the discrimination faced by women, ethnic minorities, disabled workers and lesbians and gay men in the workplace, as well as trade union responses. Since moving to the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University, Tessa has continued to develop her interest in effective measures to combat discrimination at work, working on a range of European and UK research projects. She is completing a PhD at the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, Queen Mary, University of London on the experiences of women working in non-traditionally female occupations, examining the intersections of gender, sexuality and class.
Hazel Conley
Hazel Conley started her working life as a bank clerk, where she quickly noted gendered and racialised workplace segregation along with the subtle and not so subtle discrimination that followed. In 1989 Hazel decided to enter higher education. It was here that she began to understand the theories and concepts that sought to explain discrimination at work. She has researched and published extensively, particularly on the ways in which labour market segmentation, especially in relation to non-standard forms of work, can result in discrimination and disadvantage. Her recent work focuses on the discrimination and equality legislation, examining its strengths and limitations as a tool for fighting discrimination.
Notes on Contributors
Nicole Avdelidou-Fischer
Nicole Avdelidou-Fischer earned her PhD from the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity at Queen Mary, University of London. Having worked for over a decade in German and British corporations, Nicole has witnessed and personally experienced patriarchal structures that create barriers for women to access powerful coalitions. Familiar with the topic of networking and inspired by gaps in the academic literature, Nicole embarked upon an investigation of independent networks for business and professional women at the crossroads of feminist and social movement theories.
Monika Beutel
Monika Beutel is a freelance consultant and trainer for the public and third sectors. Her career has been mostly in universities, as a sociology lecturer and academic manager. She has a range of interests, including womens entrepreneurship and adult education. She coordinated a London Learning Partnership as well as Disadvantage, Disengagement and Discrimination in London, a Working Lives Research Institute project which examined learning and skills development approaches for adults from diverse deprived communities.
Nick Clark
Nick Clark is Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI). He has worked at the Labour Research Department (19831987), print union Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) (19871994), the Trade Union Congress (19942005) where he helped develop the TUCs work on migrant workers and in the General Secretarys office at the Public & Commercial Services Union, joining WLRI in April 2009. He was a member of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority board from 2005 until January 2009.