The Reemergence of Self-Employment
Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality
Contributors: Richard Arum (Editor); Walter Muller (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780691117577
Subjects: Work & labour; Social status; Labor; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Equality; Demography; Self-employed
First sentence: IN THE SECOND half of the twentieth century, social scientists typically viewed self-employment as an obsolete remnant of past forms of economic organization: its small-scale mode of production was expected to disappear under the dominating logic and competitive pressures of capital accumulation and mass production.