Richard Arum / Walter Muller (eds.)

The Reemergence of Self-Employment

A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality
Herausgeber: Arum, Richard; Müller, Walter

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Produktbeschreibung

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 are being replaced by self-employment in both professional and unskilled occupations. Differences in self-employment across societies depend on the extent to which labor markets are regulated and the degree to which intergenerational family relationships are a primary factor structuring social organization. For each of the eleven countries analyzed, the book highlights the extent to which social background, educational attainment, work history, family status, and gender affect the likelihood that an individual will enter--and continue--a particular type of self-employment. While involvement with self-employment is becoming more common, it is occurring for individuals in activities that are more diverse, unstable and transitory than in years past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780691117577
• ISBN-10: 0691117578
• Artikelnr.: 22163421

Autorenporträt

Richard Arum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions, at New York University. Walter Müller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim and Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations vii Tables xi Preface xv Chapter One Self-Employment Dynamics
in Advanced Economies 1 Walter Müller and Richard Arum Chapter Two Trends
in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different Developments? 36
Henning Lohmann and Silvia Luber Chapter Three Entries and Exits from
Self-Employment in France over the Last Twenty Years 75 Thomas Amossé and
Dominique Goux Chapter Four Dutch Self-Employment between 1980 and 1997 104
Boris F. Blumberg and Paul M. de Graaf Chapter Five Self-Employment in the
United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s 135 Nigel Meager and Peter Bates
Chapter Six Entrepreneurs and Laborers: Two Sides of Self-Employment
Activity in the United States 170 Richard Arum Chapter Seven
Self-Employment in Australia,1980-1999 203 M.D.R.Evans and Joanna Sikora
Chapter Eight Winners or Losers? Entry and Exit into Self-Employment in
Hungary: 1980s and 1990s 245 Péter Róbert and Erzsébet Bukodi Chapter Nine
Three Forms of Emergent Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Russia: Entry and
Exit Patterns by Gender 277 Theodore P.Gerber Chapter Ten Self-Employment
in Italy: Scaling the Class Barriers 310 Paolo Barbieri and Ivano Bison
Chapter Eleven Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment in Japan 348
Hiroshi Ishida Chapter Twelve On One's Own: Self-Employment Activity in
Taiwan 388 Wei-hsin Yu and Kuo-Hsien Su Chapter Thirteen The Reemergence of
Self-Employment: Comparative Findings and Empirical Propositions 426
Richard Arum and Walter Müller Contributors' Notes 455 Index 459