Measuring workforce segregation: religious composition of private-sector employees at individual sites in Northern Ireland

Peter Shirlow

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Abstract

In this paper I examine the scope of publicly available information on the religious composition of employees in private-sector companies in Northern Ireland. I highlight the unavailability of certain types of monitoring data and the impact of data aggregation at company as opposed to site level. Both oversights lead to underestimates of the extent of workplace segregation in Northern Ireland. The ability to provide more-coherent data on workplace segregation, by religion, in Northern Ireland is crucial in terms of advancing equality and other social-justice agendas. I argue that a more-accurate monitoring of religious composition of workplaces is part of an overall need to develop a spatial approach in which the importance of ethnically territorialised spaces in the reproduction of ethnosectarian disputation is understood.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1545-1559
Number of pages15
JournalEnvironment and Planning A
Volume38
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2006

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
  • Geography, Planning and Development

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