1st Edition
Risky Business? Youth And The Enterprise Culture
306 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1991. MacDonald and Coffield look 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. The young people studied are categorized with reference to their attitude to, and experience of,... Read more
List of Tables and Figures, List of Abbreviations, Preface and Acknowledgments, Chapter 1. Introduction: Youth and Enterprise, Chapter 2. The Hunt for the Heffalump Resumed: the Rise of the Enterprise Movement, Chapter 3. The ‘Infant Hercules’ Comes of Age, Chapter 4. Cleveland’s Enterprise Industry, Chapter 5. ‘Becoming Your Own Boss’, Chapter 6. Risky Business?, Chapter 7. Runners, Fallers and Plodders: Some Case Studies of Youth Enterprise, Chapter 8. Beyond Small Business: Alternative Forms of Enterprise, Chapter 9. Maggie’s Army?, Chapter 10. A Culture of Enterprise or a Culture of Survival?, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
Biography
MacDonald, Robert; Coffield, Frank
