Labour, LGBT* rights, and Europe. Discourses in Italy and Serbia

Dioli, Irene (2013) Labour, LGBT* rights, and Europe. Discourses in Italy and Serbia, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Diversity management and governance, 25 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/5995.
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Abstract

At the time of writing, all three elements that are evoked in the title – emancipation and social inclusion of sexual minorities, labour and labour activism, and the idea and substance of “Europe” – are being invested by deep, long-term, and – to varied degrees – radical processes of social transformation. The meaning of words like “equality”, “rights”, “inclusion”, and even “democracy” is as precarious and uncertain as are the lives of those European citizens who are marginalised by intersecting conditions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class – in a constellation of precarities that is both unifying and fragmented (fragmenting). Conflicts are played, in hidden or explicit ways, over material processes of redistribution as well as discursive practices that revolve around these words. Against this backdrop, and roughly ten years after the European Union provided an input for institutional commitment to the protection of LGBT* workers' rights with the Council Directive 2000/78/EC, the dissertation contrasts discourses on workplace equality for LGBT* persons produced by a plurality of actors, seeking to identify values, semantics, and agendas framing and informing organisations’ views and showing how each actor has incorporated LGBT* rights into its own discourse, each time in a way that is functional to the construction and/or confirmation of its organisational identity: transnational union networks, by presenting LGBT* rights as a natural, neutral commitment within the framework of universal human rights protection; left-wing organisations, by collocating activism for LGBT* rights within a wider project of social emancipation that is for all the marginalised, yet is not neutral, but attached to specific values and opposed to specific political adversaries (the right-wing, the nationalists); business networks, by acknowledging diversity as a path to better performance and profits, thus encouraging inclusion and non-discrimination of “deserving” LGBT* workers.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Dioli, Irene
Supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Scienze politiche e sociali
Ciclo
25
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
Labour, LGBT, diversity, marginality
URN:NBN
DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/5995
Data di discussione
10 Giugno 2013
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