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Measuring Workforce Segregation: Religious Composition of Private-Sector Employees at Individual Sites in Northern Ireland

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  • Peter Shirlow

    (School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland)

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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.

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  • Peter Shirlow, 2006. "Measuring Workforce Segregation: Religious Composition of Private-Sector Employees at Individual Sites in Northern Ireland," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 38(8), pages 1545-1559, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:38:y:2006:i:8:p:1545-1559
    DOI: 10.1068/a3840
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