ABSTRACT
To what extent are you conscious of your race or ethnicity? When are you conscious of it? Does it matter and if so, how? You might take your race and ethnicity for granted and it might rarely enter your consciousness. Even if you are conscious of it, however, you may feel it has little relevance to your working life. In this chapter I explore issues of race and ethnicity and argue that it is often highly relevant to work experience – and to inequality – even if we may sometimes, understandably, want to dodge the issue. I start by dealing with the meaning of ‘race and ethnicity’ as related and overlapping terms, before sketching some dimensions of inequality and considering possible origins, before I focus on how it is negotiated at work.
