This article explains entrepreneurial activity patterns in the United Kingdom (UK) labour market using theories of racial capitalism and intersectional feminism. Using UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) Labour Force Survey (LFS) data 2018-19 and employing probit modelling techniques on employment modes, self-employment types, and work arrangements amongst differing groups, we investigate inequality in self-employment within and between socio-structural groupings of race, class and gender. We find that those belonging to non-dominant gender, race and socioeconomic class groupings experience an intersecting set of entrepreneurial penalties, enhancing understanding of the ways multiple social hierarchies interact in self-employment patterns. This robust quantitative evidence challenges contemporary debates, policy and practice regarding the potential for entrepreneurship to offer viable income generation opportunities by those on the socioeconomic margins
