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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: entrepreneurship, petty capitalism and the restructuring of Britain -- 2 Enterprise cultures: a frame analysis -- 3 Self-employment and entrepreneurship: notes on two problematic concepts -- 4 A socio-economic anatomy of the British petty bourgeoisie: a multivariate analysis -- 5 Spatial variations in enterprise: the geography of new firm formation -- 6 Business as a master metaphor: working class entrepreneurship and business-like policing -- 7 The enterprise culture and the welfare state: restructuring the management of the health and personal social services -- 8 In search of small firm industrial relations -- 9 Small firms: between the enterprise culture and 'New Times' -- Index.

This paper examines the relationship between metrics, markets and affect in the contemporary UK academy. It argues that the emergence of a particular structure of feeling amongst academics in the last few years has been closely associated with the growth and development of 'quantified control'. It examines the functioning of a range of metrics: citations; workload models; transparent costing data; research assessments; teaching quality assessments; and commercial university league tables. It argues that these metrics, and others, although still embedded within an audit culture, increasingly function autonomously as a data assemblage able not just to mimic markets but, increasingly, to enact them. It concludes by posing some questions about the possible implications of this for the future of academic practice.

This note is written in the spirit of Becker's dictum that "methodology is too important to be left to methodologists" (Becker, 1970: 3). The methodology I wish to examine is the influential realist approach to social science, which has recently been held up as a panacea for many sociological ills. As an approach with its own specificity it has developed since the mid‐1970s, making important and influential contributions to a wide range of concerns, suggesting that it is more than just another in the series of intellectual fads by which many sociologists have been seduced (Outhwaite, 1987). However, realism, like many other intellectual projects which attempt to operate at the interface of theory and practice, has been subject to the constraints of current institutional arrangements.

In the decade between 2007 and 2017 London changed fundamentally. This article is about how the actions of the transnational über- wealthy — the "have yachts" — impinged on the life- worlds of the "merely wealthy" — "the haves." As the authors explore the conceptual utility of gentrification as a way of thinking about these seismic urban changes, they conclude that profound socio- spatial changes and new intensities in the financialization of housing, neighborhood tensions, and cultural dislocations are reshaping London as a plutocratic city and the lives of those who live there in historically unprecedented ways. The concept of "super- gentrification," the authors argue, does not adequately frame these circumstances.

The institutional mechanisms by which young adults come to experience temporary periods of global mobility are varied, but what most have in common is a presupposition that those gaining entry into another country will return 'home' within a specific period. This article is concerned to better understand how young adults who are engaged in such forms of global travel manage the significant personal emotional intimate attachments that many of them make in the places that they visit when a decision has to be made about returning. Here we offer an empirical examination of what happens when an envisaged return 'home' is stymied by the formation of a significant intimate relationship with someone from another country. In particular we focus on the role that 'family matters' play in decision-making processes.

About 20,000 people from the United Kingdom emigrate to Australia each year. Of these, a significant number return to the United Kingdom, and some return again to Australia. Studies of such patterns of migration and return (and return again) were quite common a few decades ago, but are now rare. This paper makes use of a contemporary data source – an Internet‐mediated discussion forum – to explore the experiences of modern 'ping‐pong poms'. A picture emerges of these migrants as exercising emotional reflexivity in dealing with the pull of family left behind, 'homesickness', the lack of a sense of belonging and their often‐disappointed dreams of a 'better life'. By understanding the importance of emotions in people's decisions about return migration, policy can better attend to the realities of more mobile lives.