Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982University of California Press, 1 sept. 2023 - 506 pagini A decade in preparation, Immigrant Entrepreneurs offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America's new immigrants. By the mid-1970s Americans had already become aware that Korean immigrants were opening, buying, and operating numerous business enterprises in major cities. When Koreans flourished in small business, Americans wanted to know how immigrants could find lucrative business opportunities where native-born Americans could not. Somewhat later, when Korean-black conflicts surfaced in a number of cities, Americans also began to fear the implications for intergroup relations of immigrant entrepreneurs who start in the middle rather than at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy. Nowhere was immigrant enterprise more obvious or impressive than in Los Angeles, the world's largest Korean settlement outside of Korea and America's premier city of small business. Analyzing both the short-run and the long-run causes of Korean entrepreneurship, the authors explain why the Koreans could find, acquire, and operate small business firms more easily than could native-born residents. They also provide a context for distinguishing clashes of culture and clashes of interest which cause black-Korean tensions in cities, and for framing effective policies to minimize the tensions. |
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... world capitalism in a case study , we hope to have illuminated that big subject by close exami- nation of this small subject . We have made equal contributions to this text , but they have reflected task specialization as befits an ...
... world capitalism in a case study , we hope to have illuminated that big subject by close exami- nation of this small subject . We have made equal contributions to this text , but they have reflected task specialization as befits an ...
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... World societies . Examples include overseas Chinese , Japanese , Armenians , Greeks ; Jews of the diaspora ; East Indians in Uganda ; Ibo of Nigeria ; and certain religious minorities such as Jains and Parsees of India , or Quakers in ...
... World societies . Examples include overseas Chinese , Japanese , Armenians , Greeks ; Jews of the diaspora ; East Indians in Uganda ; Ibo of Nigeria ; and certain religious minorities such as Jains and Parsees of India , or Quakers in ...
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... world as commercial middlemen and , in this im- portant respect , middleman theory offered no guidance to Korean entrepreneurship in Los Angeles . The concept of immigrant or ethnic entrepreneurship offered a broader research framework ...
... world as commercial middlemen and , in this im- portant respect , middleman theory offered no guidance to Korean entrepreneurship in Los Angeles . The concept of immigrant or ethnic entrepreneurship offered a broader research framework ...
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... WORLD SYSTEM Since the separate contributions of ethnic and class resources to en- trepreneurship are still only partially understood , tracing and docu- menting their independent and joint effects represents an important task of this ...
... WORLD SYSTEM Since the separate contributions of ethnic and class resources to en- trepreneurship are still only partially understood , tracing and docu- menting their independent and joint effects represents an important task of this ...
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... world system and immigrant entrepreneurship . Nonetheless , we undertook this study in the belief that an exploration of Korean entrepreneurs in Los Angeles would reduce the existing gap between a plenitude of world system theory and a ...
... world system and immigrant entrepreneurship . Nonetheless , we undertook this study in the belief that an exploration of Korean entrepreneurs in Los Angeles would reduce the existing gap between a plenitude of world system theory and a ...
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The Role of the Korean Government | 68 |
Emigration From South Korea | 102 |
KOREAN BUSINESS IN LOS ANGELES | 127 |
Immigration And Settlement | 129 |
Entrepreneurs and Firms | 156 |
Reaction and Solidarity | 298 |
KOREAN SMALL BUSINESS IN AMERICAN CAPITALISM | 327 |
The Protection of US Labor Standards | 329 |
The Cheapness of Korean Immigrant Small Business | 352 |
The Use of Korean Small Business by US Capital | 369 |
The Making of Immigrant Small Business | 399 |
CONCLUSION | 421 |
The Costs of Immigrant Entrepreneurship | 423 |
Class and Ethnic Resources | 178 |
Business Location | 204 |
The Retail Liquor Industry | 225 |
Raising Capital | 242 |
Sources of Entrepreneurship | 271 |
Telephone Survey 1977 | 435 |
Notes | 437 |
References | 461 |
Index | 485 |
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 Ivan Light,Edna Bonacich Previzualizare limitată - 2023 |
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 Ivan Light,Edna Bonacich Previzualizare limitată - 2023 |
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 Ivan Light,Edna Bonacich Previzualizare limitată - 1991 |
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