The Age of Entrepreneurship: Business Proprietors, Self-employment and Corporations Since 1851

by Harry Smith, Carry Van Lieshout, Gill Newton, et al.

This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more than nine million entrepreneurs, it gives new understanding to the development of Britain as the world's 'first industrial nation'.

Based on the first long-term whole-population analysis of British small business, it uses novel methods to identify from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367785595
• ISBN13: 9780367785598
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"