Beyond Racial Dualism: Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in the Labour Market

Andrew Pilkington

Chapter 11 in Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment, 2001, pp 172-189 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Marx’s famous dictum that history is made by human beings but not under conditions that they choose is widely accepted by social scientists. Its attraction stems from the fact that it succinctly expresses the need to give due weight to both agency and structure. Social change is only possible because of human action but such action is in turn constrained by social forces. And yet when we examine research on race and ethnicity, we find that it tends either to highlight the structural forces which result in the social exclusion of particular racially defined groups or to celebrate the actions of human beings in sustaining distinct ethnic cultures. Marx’s dictum seems to have been forgotten.

Keywords: Labour Market; Ethnic Minority; Racial Discrimination; Ethnic Diversity; Ethnic Minority Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333977880_11

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