Entrepreneurs and Industrial Change: The Process of Change in Irish Manufacturing by Patrick O’Farrell, Irish Management Institute, Dublin (1986). x + 309 pp. ISBN 0 903352 50 8 (paperback). Although only focussing on the manufacturing sector in the Republic of Ireland, this book represents a major contribution to the debate on the nature and scale of the job generation process in western capitalist society. The strength of the book lies in the presentation of a detailed and comprehensive analysis of manufacturing employment change alongside a close examination of the process of entrepreneurship derived from a sample survey of new firm founders. Although there have been a great number of surveys investigating the process of new firm formation in a range of regions and countries very few have been able to place them within a rigorous statistical context. O’Farrell has clearly demonstrated the value of adopting such an approach in this book.