Richard Arum and Walter Müller |
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The Reemergence of Self- Employment |
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| A comparative study of self-employment dynamics and social inequality |
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| 466 pages, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2004 | |||
| ISBN 0-691-11757-8 | |||
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Abstract
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 selfemployment. 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.
Contents
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Self-Employment Dynamics in Advanced Economies (Walter Müller and Richard Arum) |
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| 2 | Trends in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different
Developments? (Henning Lohmann and Silvia Luber) |
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| 3 | Entries and Exits from Self-Employment in France over the Last
Twenty Years (Thomas Amossé and Dominique Goux) |
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| 4 | Dutch Self-Employment between 1980 and 1997 (Boris F. Blumberg and Paul M. de Graaf) |
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| 5 | Self-Employment in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and
1990s (Nigel Meager and Peter Bates) |
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| 6 | Entrepreneurs and Laborers: Two Sides of Self-Employment Activity
in the United States (Richard Arum) |
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| 7 | Self-Employment in Australia, 1980-1999 (M.D.R. Evans and Joanna Sikora) |
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| 8 | Winners or Losers? Entry and Exit into Self-Employment in
Hungary: 1980s and 1990s (Péter Róbert and Erzsébet Bukodi) |
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| 9 | Three Forms of Emergent Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Russia:
Entry and Exit Patterns by Gender (Theodore P. Gerber) |
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| 10 | Self-Employment in Italy: Scaling the Class Barriers (Paolo Barbieri and Ivano Bison) |
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| 11 | Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment in Japan (Hiroshi Ishida) |
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| 12 | On One's Own: Self-Employment Activity in Taiwan (Wei-hsin Yu and Kuo-Hsien Su) |
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| 13 | The Reemergence of Self-Employment: Comparative Findings and
Empirical Propositions (Richard Arum and Walter Müller) |
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| Contributors' Notes | ||
| Index | ||
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.