At the Margins of the Economy

by Kovalainen, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781859722138
• ISBN10: 185972213X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Avebury

Table of Contents

List of tables	viii
Preface and acknowledgements	xi
PART I
Introduction	3	(22)
The starting point of the research	3	(3)
Background for the study	6	(5)
On the concepts of self-employment and entrepreneurship	11	(5)
Some general features of the waged workforce and the self-employed	16	(4)
General notes on women's labour force participation and self-employment	20	(5)
The research setting	25	(10)
The aims and objectives of the study	25	(2)
The nature of the study and the empirical data material used	27	(4)
The structure of the study	31	(4)
PART II
Gender -- Why and how? Methodological standpoint for the study	35	(18)
Why study gender? Methodological point of departure	35	(8)
Shifting definitions -- gender and patriarchy as analytical categories	43	(7)
Concluding remarks: how to study gender?	50	(3)
Concepts and theories of self-employment and entrepreneurship	53	(57)
Traditional points of departure	53	(1)
The entrepreneur in classical economic theory -- the invisible hand in the economy?	54	(2)
The entrepreneur in sociological research	56	(15)
Research on women's entrepreneurship	71	(12)
Labour market models -- an alternative framework for self-employment?	83	(18)
The linkage between gendered self-employment and gendered waged work	101	(2)
Concluding remarks: a fragmented picture	103	(7)
The settings for women's self-employment	110	(17)
Cyclical changes	111	(1)
Displacement	112	(2)
Structural changes in the economy	114	(2)
Technological changes	116	(1)
New forms for the organisation of work	117	(3)
Institutional influences	120	(2)
Summary	122	(5)
PART III
The tale vs. the reality -- a sketch of self-employed women in Finland	127	(30)
Women's work and women's business	127	(8)
Changes within industries or between industrial structures?	135	(4)
Self-employed women in Finland-what do they look like?	139	(3)
The principal industrial distribution and trends	142	(4)
Longer hours for less pay?	146	(6)
Education and occupations of the self-employed	152	(3)
Summary	155	(2)
Women's business activities in Finland--industrial distribution and trends	157	(62)
General development and the main features of manufacturing industry	157	(6)
At the core of the manufacturing industries? Women's self-employment in manufacturing	163	(16)
Development in the service sector -- the re-emergence of self-employment	179	(12)
The growth sector of the economy -- the modern entrepreneurs?	191	(15)
Invisible women entrepreneurs -- assisting family members	206	(6)
Concluding remarks: a more complete picture	212	(7)
PART IV
Discussion	219	(6)
Appendices	225	(17)
Bibliography	242	(25)
Name index	267	(5)
Subject index	272