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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... City where Koreans clustered in the fruit and vegetable business , wig stores , and garment factories . Koreans in Chicago attracted atten- tion because of the many small retail and service proprietorships Table 2. Self - Employed ...
... City where Koreans clustered in the fruit and vegetable business , wig stores , and garment factories . Koreans in Chicago attracted atten- tion because of the many small retail and service proprietorships Table 2. Self - Employed ...
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... city context in which Korean entre- preneurship emerged , middleman theory was readily applicable here . Third , the middleman literature explained the intergroup ten- sions that typically arise when alien business owners buffer elites ...
... city context in which Korean entre- preneurship emerged , middleman theory was readily applicable here . Third , the middleman literature explained the intergroup ten- sions that typically arise when alien business owners buffer elites ...
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... city's business population . In this sense , a political intervention of the U.S. government was par- tially effective in reversing or , at least , retarding the decline of small business . Liberalization of U.S. immigration law would ...
... city's business population . In this sense , a political intervention of the U.S. government was par- tially effective in reversing or , at least , retarding the decline of small business . Liberalization of U.S. immigration law would ...
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... city investments , provided big firms with indirect access to cheap labor , and permitted big corpora- tions to hire unregulated business satellites in order to evade the wage demands of organized labor . Additionally , Korean retailers ...
... city investments , provided big firms with indirect access to cheap labor , and permitted big corpora- tions to hire unregulated business satellites in order to evade the wage demands of organized labor . Additionally , Korean retailers ...
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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 - 1991 |
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