24 th ISBA National Small Firms Conference: Exploring the Frontiers of Small Business Ignorance is Bliss, Knowledge is Blight? Employment Rights and Small Firms Paper to ISBA National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference, Hinkley, Leicestershire, November 2001 Ignorance is Bliss, Knowledge is Blight? Employment Rights and Small Firms Robert Blackburn and Mark Hart Small Business Research Centre Kingston Business School Kingston University Kingston-upon-Thames, KT2 7LB, UK Tel. +44 [0] 20 8547 7247; fax. +44 [0] 20 8547 7140 email: r.blackburn@kingston.ac.uk m.hart@kingston.ac.uk