This edited volume highlights relevant issues and solutions for diversity groups within the workplace. It explores issues of identity as they relate to attributes of gender, age, migrant labor, disability, and power in social spaces. Identity is rarely well-defined in many social spaces, and understandings that define belonging are often developed through the normative expectations of others. Having an evidence-based approach in addressing these relevant issues, this book will appeal to academics and practitioners alike looking for practical and theoretical solutions to improving the situations of these groups in paid employment.

This edited volume highlights relevant issues and solutions for diversity groups within the workplace.  It explores issues of identity as they relate to attributes of gender, age, migrant labor, disability, and power  in social spaces. Identity is rarely well-defined in many social spaces, and understandings that define belonging are often developed through the normative expectations of others. Having an evidence-based approach in addressing these relevant issues, this book will appeal to academics and practitioners alike looking for practical and theoretical solutions to improving the situations of these groups in paid employment.

1. Introducing concepts of workforce diversity.- 2. Chronic health conditions and work identity from a lifespan development frame.- 3. Autism spectrum disorder: Emotion work in the workplace.- 4. The ageing population in Australia: Implications for the workforce.- 5. Recognising young people as “real” workers and the employment implications of framing young workers as deficient.- 6. Work-life juggle! Insights into the experiences of Indian information technology women who undertook international assignments.- 7. How women executives survive the isolated echelons of the corporate ladder.- 8. The health systems workforce in an era of globalised superdiversity – an example of a global care chain landscape in Ireland.- 9. Belonging, temporariness and seasonal labour: working holidaymakers’ experiences in regional Australia.- 10. Work, identity and trade union responses and strategies.- 11. Are collective identity and action being squashed by individualism?.- 12. Issues of power and disclosure for women with chronic illness in their places of work.- 13. Reflections and conclusions.