ABSTRACT
This book’s primary aim is to act as a teaching and learning support to modules centred on equality, diversity or discrimination in employment, and to allow students to acquire the contextual, theoretical and conceptual tools necessary to access and understand the rich variety of researchbased literature in the field. It is not intended as a replacement of that literature. As is the case with any text, it should be regarded as a departure point, rather than as a whole package of study and programme of learning in itself. Our aim is to stimulate students’ interest in this field of study by our mapping of the territory. The further reading and references we provide should be consulted in order to deepen and broaden understanding. Feedback from the first edition indicates that the book has also proved a useful resource for academic readers because of its synthesis and critique of the literature in the fields of equality and diversity.
