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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... third of South Europeans and Chinese in Tor- onto worked in settings in which their native tongue was spoken . These settings included ethnic businesses as well as work groups " within Anglo - Saxon controlled organizations " ( Reitz ...
... third of South Europeans and Chinese in Tor- onto worked in settings in which their native tongue was spoken . These settings included ethnic businesses as well as work groups " within Anglo - Saxon controlled organizations " ( Reitz ...
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... Third , Granovetter ( 1984 : 323 ) discovered that , contrary to the myth of bureaucratization , " size of the workplace " in the American economy hardly increased between 1920 and 1977. Even in manu- facturing , bastion of large firms ...
... Third , Granovetter ( 1984 : 323 ) discovered that , contrary to the myth of bureaucratization , " size of the workplace " in the American economy hardly increased between 1920 and 1977. Even in manu- facturing , bastion of large firms ...
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... third of manufacturing workers actually find employment in estab- lishments larger than 1000 workers . Fourth , new information indicates that previous estimates of the self - employed population systematically underestimated its size ...
... third of manufacturing workers actually find employment in estab- lishments larger than 1000 workers . Fourth , new information indicates that previous estimates of the self - employed population systematically underestimated its size ...
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... Third 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 ...
... Third 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 ...
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... Third World country with a low standard of living . But the condition of workers in Korea was not solely a product of level of development . It was also a function of South Korea's position in the world capitalist system . In collabora ...
... Third World country with a low standard of living . But the condition of workers in Korea was not solely a product of level of development . It was also a function of South Korea's position in the world capitalist system . In collabora ...
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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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