The shackled runner: time to rethink positive discrimination?

Mike Noon
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Mike Noon: Queen Mary University of London, m.a.noon@qmul.ac.uk

Work, Employment & Society, 2010, vol. 24, issue 4, 728-739

Abstract: This article argues a case for reconsidering positive discrimination as a viable and necessary policy intervention to speed up the progression to equality in the workplace. It provides counter-arguments to the four main objections to positive discrimination: the failure to select the ‘best’ candidate, the undermining of meritocracy, the negative impact on the beneficiaries and the injustice of reverse discrimination. It concludes that positive discrimination provides the necessary structural conditions in order for radical, transformative change towards equality to take place.

Keywords: diversity; equality; equal opportunity; meritocracy; positive discrimination; social justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017010380648

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