Small Business in American Life /
Small Business in American Life /
ed. by Stuart W. Bruchey.
- 1 online resource (396 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Summary View of Small Business and American Life -- 1. Independence and Enterprise: Small Business in the American Dream -- 2. The Revolutionary Charleston Mechanic -- 3. From Artisan to Manufacturer: Industrialization and the Small Producer in Newark, 1830–60 -- 4. Black Coats to White Collars: Economic Change, Nonmanual Work, and the Social Structure of Industrializing America -- 5. Small Business and Occupational Mobility in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie -- 6. The Position of Small Business in the Structure of American Manufacturing, 1870–1970 -- 7. Master Printers Organize: The Typothetae of the City of New York, 1865–1906 -- 8. Origins of Small Business and the Relationships Between Large and Small Firms: Metal Fabricating and Machinery Making in New England, 1890–1957 -- 9. The Effects of Industrialization on Small Retailing in the United States in the Twentieth Century -- 10. Small-Business Banking in the United States, 1780–1920 -- 11. Labor and Small-Scale Enterprise During Industrialization -- 12. The Financing of Small Business in the United States -- 13. Law and Small Business in the United States: One Hundred Years of Struggle and Accommodation -- 14. Small Business and Urban Power: Some Notes on the History of Economic Policy in Nineteenth-Century American Cities -- 15. Lilliputians in Brobdingnag: Small Business in Late-Nineteenth-Century America -- 16. Economics and Culture in the Gilded Age Hatting Industry -- 17. The Role of Small Business in the Process of Skill Acquisition -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Presents essays concerned with the impact of industrialization on small business in the United States from the late 18th century onward.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231928243 9780231890649
10.7312/bruc92824 doi
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Summary View of Small Business and American Life -- 1. Independence and Enterprise: Small Business in the American Dream -- 2. The Revolutionary Charleston Mechanic -- 3. From Artisan to Manufacturer: Industrialization and the Small Producer in Newark, 1830–60 -- 4. Black Coats to White Collars: Economic Change, Nonmanual Work, and the Social Structure of Industrializing America -- 5. Small Business and Occupational Mobility in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie -- 6. The Position of Small Business in the Structure of American Manufacturing, 1870–1970 -- 7. Master Printers Organize: The Typothetae of the City of New York, 1865–1906 -- 8. Origins of Small Business and the Relationships Between Large and Small Firms: Metal Fabricating and Machinery Making in New England, 1890–1957 -- 9. The Effects of Industrialization on Small Retailing in the United States in the Twentieth Century -- 10. Small-Business Banking in the United States, 1780–1920 -- 11. Labor and Small-Scale Enterprise During Industrialization -- 12. The Financing of Small Business in the United States -- 13. Law and Small Business in the United States: One Hundred Years of Struggle and Accommodation -- 14. Small Business and Urban Power: Some Notes on the History of Economic Policy in Nineteenth-Century American Cities -- 15. Lilliputians in Brobdingnag: Small Business in Late-Nineteenth-Century America -- 16. Economics and Culture in the Gilded Age Hatting Industry -- 17. The Role of Small Business in the Process of Skill Acquisition -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Presents essays concerned with the impact of industrialization on small business in the United States from the late 18th century onward.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231928243 9780231890649
10.7312/bruc92824 doi
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business.