Class, Gender and the Family Business

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Kate Mulholland

   Pages 1-8

3. The Study, Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

   • Kate Mulholland

   Pages 9-27

4. Business Partnership and the Gendering of Wealth Creation: ‘His Dream and My Money’

   • Kate Mulholland

   Pages 28-47

5. Gender and the Management of Wealth Accumulation: ‘He also Wants a Pudding’

   • Kate Mulholland

   Pages 48-69

6. Gender and Wealth Preservation: ‘I’m Not a Member of My Husband’s Family’

   • Kate Mulholland

   Pages 70-88

7. Entrepreneurialism, Masculinities and the Self-Made Man

   • Kate Mulholland

   Pages 89-110

8. The Entrepreneur’s Wife and Family Life: ‘It’s Like Being a One-Parent Family’

   • Kate Mulholland

   Pages 111-130

9. Women Owners: Honorary Men?

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   Pages 131-150

10. The Family Enterprise and Business Strategies

    • Kate Mulholland

    Pages 151-179

11. Conclusions

    • Kate Mulholland

    Pages 180-190

12. Back Matter

    Pages 191-205

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In raising questions about the relationship between gender power, class power and enterprise, this book brings an insightful perspective to the study of family capitalism. Based on a study of enterprise across different sectors, interviews were conducted amongst 70 major business families.

• emotion
• Familie
• family business
• gender
• organization
• organizations
• women

'Most family business research has strangely managed to forget gender. This book changes all that by explicitly analysing gender inequalities in family business families. In so doing, Mulholland also furthers key understandings of the gendering of economy, and intersections of class, ethnicity and gender.' - Professor Jeff Hearn, University of Manchester, UK & Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland

KATE MULHOLLAND has formerly taught Sociology at Queen's University of Belfast and has held research posts at the Centre for Management Under Regulation, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Leicester University, Royal Free Hospital, London University and the Central Policy Unit, London. Her research interests are class and gender issues, family politics and enterprise, organisational change and call centre employment. She is currently developing her research and living in Oxford, UK.

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