Highly Discriminating

Why the City Isn’t Fair and Diversity Doesn’t Work

Louise Ashley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

310 Seiten

2022
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2767-3 (ISBN)

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Written by a leading expert, this book examines equality issues in the City of London, arguing that social hiring practices in the City favour affluent applicants, and calls for a policy shift at the organisational and governmental levels.

Why does the City of London, despite an apparent commitment to recruitment and progression based on objective merit within its hiring practices, continue to reproduce the status quo?

Written by a leading expert on diversity and elite professions, this book examines issues of equality in the City, what its practitioners say in public and what they think behind closed doors.

Drawing on research, interviews, practitioner literature and internal reports, it argues that hiring practices in the City are highly discriminating in favour of a narrow pool of affluent applicants, and future progress may only be achieved by the state taking a greater role in organizational life. It calls for a policy shift at both the organizational and governmental level to address the implications of widening inequality in the UK.

Louise Ashley is Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. She has led major research reports for government bodies including the Social Mobility Commission and regularly presents her findings to practitioner audiences in the City and further afield. Her research has also been covered in national and international mainstream media including Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, The New York Times, The Sydney Herald, The Financial Times and The Guardian.

Introduction

1. Capital and Context

Part 1: Why the City Isn't Fair

2. Reputation and Respect

3. Qualifications and Complexity

4. Scarcity and Similarity

5. Status and Stereotypes

Part 2: Why Diversity Doesn't Work

6. Diversity and Diffusion

7. Capital and Control

8. Stigma and Shame

9. Ridicule and Resistance

10. Rethinking Respect

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5292-2767-4 / 1529227674
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-2767-3 / 9781529227673
Zustand	Neuware