Riding the roller coaster
Family life and self-employment
- Author/Editor(s):
- Susan Baines, Jane Wheelock, Ulrike Gelder
- Format:
- Paperback , 68 pages , 297 x 210 mm
- ISBN
- 9781861345035
- Published:
- 17 Dec 2003
- Series:
- Family and Work series
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About This Book
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.
Author Biography
Susan Baines is 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.Contents
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.
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