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SOME people opt willingly for self-employed status because they believe in their ability to develop a business of their own.
The vast majority of those who do, however, are press-ganged into self-employment by the lack of job prospects and represent a particularly precarious section of the workforce.
The huge increase in the number of self-employed people in the very recent past — up to over 4.5 million — does not reveal an outburst of entrepreneurial zeal.
ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
Austerity in a red tie is still austerity, warns RAMONA McCARTNEY of the People’s Assembly – rally with us to demand different choices
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON