‘Race’, equal opportunities policies and employment practice: Reflections on the 1980s, prospects for the 1990s

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Abstract
This article attempts to take stock of some of the research evidence on ethnic minority employment and equal opportunities issues, gathered by the authors over a period of some ten years. It reviews some of the implications for equal opportunities of major changes in business organisation and employment practice which began in the 1980s. It continues by identifying a number of trends, both of potential benefit and threat to equal opportunities, that appear to characterise the early years of the 1990s. It concludes by suggesting that future developments may usefully focus on the enhanced conceptions of citizenship currently being propounded by the major political parties.