Casting the Other

The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations

Barbara Czarniawska editor Heather Hopfl editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:2nd May '02

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Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. Discrimination of various groups such as women, immigrants and older people continues and its dynamics remain unclear, largely because of the difficulties of studying it in the field. Additionally, various programs aimed at removing inequality, such as gender equality of managing diversity programs, may actually promote it by making differences visible and stabilizing them. Management, under these circumstances, comes to refer to the management of appearances which take the place of more radical acts to change the 'status quo'.

ISBN: 9780415275019

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 476g

240 pages