Risky business? : youth and the enterprise culture
- Title
- Risky business? : youth and the enterprise culture / Robert MacDonald and Frank Coffield.
- Published by
- London ; New York : Falmer Press, 1991.
- Author
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- Description
- x, 295 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This work looks at the implementation and outcome of enterprise initiatives introduced in Teeside in relation to 100 unemployed young adults in the age-range 16-25, within a political ideology which has sought to change a "dependency culture" to one of self-reliance.
- Subject
- 1979-1997
- Young adults > Employment > England > Cleveland
- Occupational training > England > Cleveland
- Self-employed > England > Cleveland
- Economic policy
- Occupational training
- Self-employed
- Young adults > Employment
- Jugend
- Unternehmensgründung
- Unternehmenskultur
- Jongeren
- Ondernemerschap
- Great Britain > Economic policy > 1979-1997
- England > Cleveland
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Contents
- Youth and enterprise; the hunt for the heffalump resumed -- the rise of the enterprise movement; the "Infant Hercules" comes of age; Cleveland's enterprise industry; "Becoming Your Own Boss"; risky business?; runners, fallers and plodders -- some case studies of youth enterprise; beyond small business -- alternative forms of enterprise; Maggie's army?; a culture of enterprise or a culture of survival?.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-289) and index.