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Small Business in American Life / ed. by Stuart W. Bruchey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231928243
  • 9780231890649
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: Presents essays concerned with the impact of industrialization on small business in the United States from the late 18th century onward.
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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

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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.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)