Insofar as there was a tendency to greater income equality in some capitalist countries in the postwar period, it was in large part because for a few decades trade unions were strong enough to convince or coerce employers to pay workers higher wages, better benefits, and give them more secure employment, thereby setting the bar for non-unionised employers.
"We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our [Southern] states".
As a Dixiecrat — Southern Democratic politicians opposed to their party's support for civil rights — Russell openly argued the white race was superior and once vowed that he would oppose "any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our states".
There has been a tendency to think that concerns about equality are unique, yet this terrain is packed with insights from abroad.
Among economists (most of whom are male), there is a tendency to treat diversity and gender equality as "soft" issues – worthy social goals perhaps, but secondary to the real business of economic growth, job creation and productivity.
By focusing on the psychic and emotional responses of African-Americans, these photographs challenge the news media's tendency to see the struggle for racial equality through the eyes and anxieties of white people.
On the topic of race equality there was a tendency to defer to staff that lead on cultural competence.
Monopolies may serve as a useful means for maintaining quality in highly specialized medical services, but seem to have an inherent tendency to do this at the expense of geographical equality.
Because the U.S. as a society values the notion of equality between the sexes, there is a tendency to look down on Japan as being behind the times for its treatment of women.
The bourgeois revolutionaries overthrew the ancien régime in the name of freedom and equality for all – and though these ideals were "packed with tacit or explicit clauses excluding women, the poor, slaves and many other groups from its ambit" (Callinicos, Equality), the universalism of these ideals had a tendency to breach these morally arbitrary, power-determined limiting clauses.
