Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-227) and index.
Introduction : work and the enterprise culture / Malcolm Cross and Geoff Payne -- Not such a small business : reflections on the rhetoric, the reality and the future of the enterprise culture / Roger Burrows and James Curran -- Paternalist capitalism : an organization culture in transition / Peter Ackers and John Black -- From coalminers to entrepreneurs? A case study in the sociology of re-industrialization / Gareth Rees and Marilyn Thomas -- Social polarization in the inner city : an analysis of the impact of labour market and household change / Nick Buck -- Young people's transitions into the labour market / Ken Roberts, Glennys Parsell and Michelle Connolly -- Part-time employment, dual careers, and equal opportunity / Michael Maguire -- Gender and graduate under-employment / Tony Chapman -- Gender and patriarchy in mining communities / Sandra Hebron and Maggie Wykes -- Economic change and employment practice : consequences for ethnic minorities / Nick Jewson and David Mason -- Gatekeepers in the urban labour market : constraining or constrained? / John Wrench