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This report takes a critical look at the costs and benefits for individuals and families of turning to self-employment as a route out of economic disadvantage.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with self-employed people, their partners and children, the report argues that self-employment is much more likely to be a household rather than an individual undertaking. It makes the case for the need to consider work-life balance in relation to the self-employed.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 68
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Series: Family and Work series
Publication Date:
17 December 2003
ISBN: 9781861345035
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Sociology: family, kinship and relationships
Susan Baines (1956-2023) was a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Business Informatics and Jane Wheelock is Professor of Socio-Economics in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, both at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Ulrike Gelder is a Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at the School of Education, University of Plymouth.
Introduction; Context and policy background; Entering self-employment; Making a livelihood; Caring for children in small-business households; Time, work and space in self-employed households; The experience of children; Conclusions and policy implications.