The Politics of Equality: The Evolving Nature of Equality Agendas at Work in the UK and Europe in a Context of Political Uncertainty

平等政治：政治不确定性背景下英国和欧洲平等议程不断变化的本质

• 批准号: ES/V016229/1
• 负责人: Miguel Martinez Lucio
• 金额: $ 72.15万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV016229%2F1
• 关键词: Politics; Equality; Evolving; Nature; Agendas

There has been significant progress in a range of European countries on the question of equality at work. In the case of the UK, the legislation of the 1970s, and the ongoing development and regulation of equality-related rights at work since then, have been extensive. A range of issues exists in terms of how different groups have been supported in relation to their rights at work, but the engagement with individual rights on questions of gender, race and disability, for example, has been significant. The European Union has also seen a major commitment to the question of ensuring that equality legislation and policies are enacted in member states. Employers and related organizations, such as trade unions, have seen a push towards new forms of equality and diversity strategies. The project aims to discover how this engagement with the question of equality at work, broadly speaking, has varied. In broad terms, how has that 'project' varied? What is the focus of the interest in equality, and what have been the imperatives for change? The project, therefore, aims to understand how the UK, the Netherlands, France and Spain have engaged with the notion of equality within work in terms of its language, practice and institutional sustainability. In some cases, the emphasis has been on gender equality; in others, it has focused on a wider range of groups. Using interviews with a strong biographical element, we aim to build a detailed insight into how equality is understood and constructed. Are there any common reference points or imperatives for change? In addition, the project seeks to outline and explain within the four countries studied - as examples of what could be called 'good practice', generally speaking - the challenges that have emerged in terms of sustaining the commitment to equality. In the UK, there has been a general concern with the complexity of equality and tensions within and between groups - gender and some LGTB issues, for example. In Spain, migration has emerged as an issue within xenophobic political discourse after a period of relatively effective social inclusion measures. In France and the Netherlands, the question of Islamophobia has been unsettling specific understandings of equality at work. We need to know how the nature of commitment to the question of equality contributes to the issues that have been emerging - or are such issues the outcome of deeper structural challenges, or extensive political developments. The question of equality at work has been a focus for disruptive political discourse: how are these changes are impacting, and why? We also need to understand how managers, trade unions, and social organizations related to these issues have responded to these challenges and sustained the general - albeit varied and uneven - commitment to expanding equality at work not only in their organizations, but also more generally. The project aims to interview a range of managers, trade unionists, and policy actors within the four countries studied. It also aims to create a dialogue through its publications and events linked to the question regarding how the equality agenda can be sustained, or even deepened, in the face of the political and economic disruption since the 2008 global financial crisis. The future of equality policies and institutions at work - which have been tied to other EU cases in various perspectives - needs to put in the frame of reference of national contexts that face similar challenges and developments. This policy and practitioner dimension of the project is an important feature of what we aim to do as we work alongside our academic objectives and publications.

在欧洲国家，在工作中的平等问题上取得了重大进展。就英国而言，1970年代的立法以及自那时以来与平等权利的持续发展和规定是广泛的。关于如何支持其工作权利的不同群体的支持，存在一系列问题，但是例如，与性别，种族和残疾问题的个人权利的参与非常重要。欧盟还对确保在成员国制定平等立法和政策的问题是一项重大承诺。雇主和相关组织，例如工会，已经迈向了新形式的平等和多样性策略。该项目旨在发现这种与工作中的平等问题的参与如何有所不同。从广义上讲，该“项目”有何不同？对平等的兴趣的重点是什么？因此，该项目的目的是了解英国，荷兰，法国和西班牙如何就其语言，实践和机构可持续性而与工作中的平等概念互动。在某些情况下，重点是性别平等。在其他情况下，它专注于更广泛的群体。我们利用具有强大的传记元素的访谈，旨在建立详细的见解，了解如何理解和构建平等。是否有任何更改的共同参考点或要塞？此外，该项目试图在所研究的四个国家中进行概述和解释 - 作为所谓的“良好实践”的例子，一般来说 - 在维持对平等承诺方面出现的挑战。在英国，例如，性别和某些LGTB问题之间的平等和紧张局势的复杂性和紧张局势的复杂性。在西班牙，经过一段相对有效的社会包容性措施，移民已成为仇外政治话语中的一个问题。在法国和荷兰，伊斯兰恐惧症的问题令人不安，令人不安的是对工作中的平等的理解。我们需要知道对平等问题的承诺的性质如何促进已经出现的问题，或者是这样的问题，即更深层的结构性挑战或广泛的政治发展的结果。工作中的平等问题一直是破坏性政治话语的重点：这些变化如何影响，为什么？我们还需要了解经理，工会和与这些问题相关的社会组织如何应对这些挑战，并维持一般的（尽管多样化和不平衡）承诺不仅在其组织中扩大工作平等，而且更普遍。该项目旨在采访所研究的四个国家的一系列经理，工会主义者和政策行为者。它还旨在通过其出版物和事件进行对话，这些出版物和事件与面对自2008年全球金融危机以来的政治和经济破坏时，如何维持平等议程，甚至加深平等议程。工作中的平等政策和机构的未来（以各种角度与其他欧盟案件相关联）需要将面临类似挑战和发展的国家环境的参考框架置于参考框架中。该项目的政策和从业者维度是我们与学术目标和出版物一起工作时要做的事情的重要特征。