New forms and patterns of employment: the role of self-employment in Britain

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Explores the relationship between the growth of self-employment and the changing patterns of industrial and social organization, legal regulation and state policy, and hence examines the conditions which could explain its growth. Based on data collected from: the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative Work Attitudes/Work Histories Survey (1986), the Research Surveys of Great Britain (1987), the General Household Survey (1983, 1984), the MAS Business Line Survey (1988) and the Labour Force Survey. Covers the 1980s