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Older People and the Enterprise Society: Age and Self-Employment Propensities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2002

James Curran  and
Robert A Blackburn
James Curran
Affiliation:
Kingston University
Robert A Blackburn
Affiliation:
Kingston University
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Abstract

The UK, like most developed economies has an ageing population. In 1901 nearly one in seven were aged 50 and over but by 1997 this had doubled to one in three (ONS 1999) a trend that will continue over the next twenty years (Scase 1999:13). Accompanying this shift has been a burgeoning debate on the roles and involvement of older people in society and the economy (Laslett 1996; Phillipson 1998). Many of the themes in this debate, however, are contradictory. For example, self-definitions and cultural constructs associated with older people often emphasise growing old as liberating.

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Work, Employment and Society , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 889 - 902
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2001 BSA Publications Ltd

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