Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982

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University 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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Immigrant Entrepreneurs in America
3
THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT AND THE ROOTS OF EMIGRATION
25
Cheap Labor in South Korea The US Role
27
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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Ivan Light is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Edna Bonacich is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.

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