After West Indian slavery was abolished in 1833, the anti-slavery campaign turned to the wider world and the goal of Universal Emancipation. Veteran agitators Joseph Sturge, Lord Brougham and John Scoble launched the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society at a world convention in 1840. Throughout its long history the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was instrumental in framing Britain's diplomatic policy of promoting anti-slavery - a policy that projected moral authority over allies and rivals, through naval power and international tribunals. The BFASS pushed for and...
After West Indian slavery was abolished in 1833, the anti-slavery campaign turned to the wider world and the goal of Universal Emancipation. Veteran a...
'Equal Opportunities' policies were first modelled in Britain in the early 1980s. In 1980, the Commission for Racial Equality listed 73 employers who had adopted their draft Equal Opportunities policy. By 2004, three quarters of all workplaces had a formal written Equal Opportunities policy, up from 64 per cent in 1998.Trying to understand why the Equal Opportunities revolution happened, when the conditions seemed so hostile to such change, is the goal of this book."
'Equal Opportunities' policies were first modelled in Britain in the early 1980s. In 1980, the Commission for Racial Equality listed 73 employers who ...
