Publisher's Synopsis
The contributors to this book analyze the forces that shaped the 1989 Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act, documenting the key differences between the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland and offering an assessment of what the new measures for affirmative action hold for the pursuit of equality.;Unlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland incorporated compulsory monitoring and contract compliance in its Fair Employment legislation. As the new Europe emerges, with its already apparent ethnic cleavages and divisions, Northern Ireland will take on a new aspect. As governments search for policies to deal with such cleavages, Northern Ireland may come to be seen less as an isolated example of "Holy War" and more as an enlightened source of experience and information for countries developing ways of dealing with minority issues.
