Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace
Mapping Inequality in the Digital Age
$57.59
- Paperback
252 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2025
Summary
This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. It considers instances where social media is used in hiring to infiltrate private lives and hide job advertisements based on locality; where algorithms assess socio-economic data to filter candidates; where human interviewers are replaced by artificial intelligence with design that disadvantages users of classed language; and where already vulnerable groups become victim…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529222951 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529222958 |
| Author: | Angelo Capuano |
| Publisher: | Bristol University Press |
| Imprint: | Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 252 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice |
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Angelo Capuano
Angelo Capuano is a Lecturer in Law at Central Queensland University. His published work on discrimination law has been used in court and tribunal decisions in Australia and South Africa, including by the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Outside of academia, Angelo has years of practical experience as a government lawyer, court researcher and judge’s associate.
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