ABSTRACT
The Trade Union Congress’s “Root Out Racism” hotline: Exposing Racism at Work (2000) received 439 calls from ethnic minority people complaining about institutional racism at work. These calls were made between Monday 19th and Friday 23rd June 2000, a five-day period from which I chose the following information because at that time I was also complaining about institutional racism at my work place. The following details show the groups I belong to and one comparator for each group:
Among the 439 callers the Black (Afro-Caribbean) were highest with fifty-three percent calls, followed by Asians with twenty-six percent calls.
Analysing the callers’ occupations, I belonged to two categories: the professional was highest with twenty percent and the associate professional and technical (which included nurses) were fourth with twelve percent calls.
Concerning the type of employer, the public administration, health, and education had the highest with sixty-three percent calls followed by manufacturing, retail, hotel and catering, transport communications, with nine percent each.
4Looking at the regions, London had the highest with sixty-two percent, followed by the southeast region with twenty-two percent.
I belong to four groups with the highest number of callers (ethnicity, profession, type of employer, and region). Is it any wonder that I also ended up complaining about institutional racism, racial discrimination, and victimization?