Promoting Equality: Challenging Discrimination and Oppression

by Audrey Mullender (Foreword), Audrey Mullender (Foreword), Neil Thompson (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.52

  In this revised and updated edition, Neil Thompson presents a clear and accessible analysis of the complexities of discrimination and oppression and the challenges of making equality practice a reality. Critical of the orthodoxies and over-simplications of political correctness , Promoting Equality combines analysis and understanding of theory with practice examples and insights. Promoting equality and valuing diversity, this book should be of value to students, practitioners, managers and educators in a variety of professions and settings concerned with people and their problems.

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  Paperback
  1998

  $11.71

  Building on the success of Anti-Discriminatory Practice , Neil Thompson provides a scholarly yet practical account of the significance of discrimination and oppression in the human services, such as social work, nursing, youth and community work and professions allied to medicine. The book explores the theory and practice of promoting equality, emphasising both the major imperative of tackling inequality and the difficulties and demands of doing so. No-one who takes seriously the challenge of promoting equality can afford to be without this book.