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Exclusion from the traditional labour market means that in the UK people of colour are a third more likely to be in precarious work than white people.

Today, the economic disenfranchisement of marginalised groups continues. The priority was those who had already materially benefited from this violent institution. It’s also why it was British slave owners who received government reparations in 1833 to the tune of £16.5bn in today’s money - rather than people who had been enslaved - when slavery was technically abolished. Slavery was maintained precisely because of its business case - exploitation and extraction is profitable. “The diversity ‘business case’ continues to place a burden on marginalised groups that is simply not expected of those who don’t experience inequities.” It also dangerously ignores and perpetuates the historical processes that got us here. The diversity ‘business case’ continues to place a burden on marginalised groups that is simply not expected of those who don’t experience inequities. Ignoring wider social and historical realities

Such studies become the fodder that those from marginalised backgrounds are compelled to compile and cite to ‘convince’ their executives to engage in even superficial ‘inclusion’ initiatives.īut supposed inclusion work that looks at how the people already leading businesses (generally any combination of white people, middle class people, heterosexual people, cis people, non-disabled people and/or men) can reap further material rewards seems decidedly ill-suited for anything other than vacuous press releases, ineffective committees and events where the canapé budget far outweighs resources allocated for anything more meaningful. Boston Consulting Group tells us in a 2018 study that diverse management teams reported innovation revenue that was 19% higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity.

Instead, we see report after report proving the ‘business case’ for diversity. And of course no one needs research in an area when they already know the answer. That’s because it’s a truth widely believed that white people are entitled to run companies and funds. No one has ever commissioned this research or thought it useful.