Employment, the Small Firm and the Labour Market
1st Edition
Published on 13. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-138-67628-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides a rigorous examination of key issues relating to employment in small businesses. These include an anlysis of the true extent of job crreation provided by small firms, the rleative quality of jobs in small firms, the growth of self-employment during the 1980s and the way in which the small firm interacts with its local labour markets. These issues are examined in an international context, wth comparative examples from the USA, the UK and Europe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-67628-2 (9781138676282)
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John Atkinson | David J. Storey
Employment, the Small Firm and the Labour Market
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07/2016
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John Atkinson | David J. Storey
Employment, the Small Firm and the Labour Market
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07/2016
Routledge
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John Atkinson | David J. Storey
Employment, the Small Firm and the Labour Market
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Persons
1. Small Firms and Employment John Atkinson and David Storey 2. Running to Stand Still: The Small Firm in the Labour Market John Atkinson and Nigel Meager 3. Employers' Work-Force Construction Policies in the Small Service Sector Enterprise John Kitching 4. Labour Market Support and Guidance for the Small Business John Atkinson 5. Labour Intensive Practices in the Ethnic Minority firm Trevor Jones, David McEvoy and Giles Barrett 6. Employment and Labour Process Changes in Manufacturing SMEs During the 1980s David North, David Smallbone and Roger Leigh 7. Employment in Small Firms: Are Cooperatives Different? Evidence from Southern Europe Will Bartlett 8. Generating Enterprise and Employment in Disadvantaged Urban Areas Alan McGregor and Ruth Fletcher 9. The Characteristics of the Self-Employed: The Supply of Labour Hedley Rees and Anup Shah
Content
1. Small Firms and Employment John Atkinson and David Storey 2. Running to Stand Still: The Small Firm in the Labour Market John Atkinson and Nigel Meager 3. Employers' Work-Force Construction Policies in the Small Service Sector Enterprise John Kitching 4. Labour Market Support and Guidance for the Small Business John Atkinson 5. Labour Intensive Practices in the Ethnic Minority firm Trevor Jones, David McEvoy and Giles Barrett 6. Employment and Labour Process Changes in Manufacturing SMEs During the 1980s David North, David Smallbone and Roger Leigh 7. Employment in Small Firms: Are Cooperatives Different? Evidence from Southern Europe Will Bartlett 8. Generating Enterprise and Employment in Disadvantaged Urban Areas Alan McGregor and Ruth Fletcher 9. The Characteristics of the Self-Employed: The Supply of Labour Hedley Rees and Anup Shah