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Past similarities in the outward appearance of domestic process in two adjacent villages of diverse origin in the Italian Alps resulted from shared ecological pressures, but contrasting modes of integration into the national political economy were decisive in producing differences between villages in the ways in which authority was developed and distributed within the domestic realm, and in processes of interaction between domestic groups. These contrasts have in turn influenced response to recent changes in the nature of village integration into the state, which have set domestic process moving in new directions.

1. Introduction / Richard Scase and Robert Goffee -- 2. The development of small firms, the traditional family and Agrarian patterns in Italy / Julia Bamford -- 3. Trends in small business start-up in West Germany / Heinz Klandt -- 4. Small business and social mobility in France / Nonna Mayer -- 5. Patterns of business proprietorship among women in Britain / Robert Goffee and Richard Scase -- 6. Ethnic entrepreneurs in Britain and Europe / Robin Ward -- 7. Ethnic enterprise in the Netherlands : the Surinamese of Amsterdam / Jeremy Boissevain and Hanneke Grotenberg -- 8. Entrepreneurship in a corporatist state : the case of Sweden / Bengt Johannisson -- 9. Independent economic activity under state socialism : is there a Petite Bourgeoisie in Eastern Europe? / Howard H. Davis -- 10. The social analysis of small business : some emerging themes / James Curran and Roger Burrows.