The Reemergence of Self-Employment : : A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality / / ed. by Walter Müller, Richard Arum.
This book presents results of a cross-national research project on self-employment in eleven advanced economies and demonstrates how and why the practice is reemerging in modern societies. While traditional forms of self-employment, such as skilled crafts work and shop keeping, are in decline, they...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter One. Self-Employment Dynamics in Advanced Economies
- Chapter Two. Trends in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different Developments?
- Chapter Three. Entries and Exits from Self-Employment in France over the Last Twenty Years
- Chapter Four. Dutch Self-Employment between 1980 and 1997
- Chapter Five. Self-Employment in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s
- Chapter Six. Entrepreneurs and Laborers: Two Sides of Self-Employment Activity in the United States
- Chapter Seven. Self-Employment in Australia, 1980-1999
- Chapter Eight. Winners or Losers? Entry and Exit into Self-Employment in Hungary: 1980s and 1990s
- Chapter Nine. Three Forms of Emergent Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Russia: Entry and Exit Patterns by Gender
- Chapter Ten. Self-Employment in Italy: Scaling the Class Barriers
- Chapter Eleven. Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment in Japan
- CHAPTER TWELVE. On One's Own: Self-Employment Activity in Taiwan
- Chapter Thirteen. The Reemergence of Self-Employment: Comparative Findings and Empirical Propositions
- Contributors' Notes
- Index