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 system's boundary with communism and to provide secure investment opportunities for multinational corporations . Without massive American interventions , South Korea would not have expe- rienced the export - led economic growth ...
... world system's boundary with communism and to provide secure investment opportunities for multinational corporations . Without massive American interventions , South Korea would not have expe- rienced the export - led economic growth ...
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... world system . This world system engineered their immi- gration to the United States , thus creating the situation that even- tuated in Korean immigrant entrepreneurship in Los Angeles and other American cities . When Korean immigrants ...
... world system . This world system engineered their immi- gration to the United States , thus creating the situation that even- tuated in Korean immigrant entrepreneurship in Los Angeles and other American cities . When Korean immigrants ...
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... 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- tion ...
... 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- tion ...
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... world capitalist system is shift- ing . These changes do not invalidate the processes analyzed in this section ; they only show that processes do not continue indefinitely . We are describing a particular historical period , extending ...
... world capitalist system is shift- ing . These changes do not invalidate the processes analyzed in this section ; they only show that processes do not continue indefinitely . We are describing a particular historical period , extending ...
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... World countries where cheap labor was mainly unskilled . It might be argued that the discrepancy in price of labor is a reflection of differences in the productivity of labor between the two countries . Perhaps Korean workers have been ...
... World countries where cheap labor was mainly unskilled . It might be argued that the discrepancy in price of labor is a reflection of differences in the productivity of labor between the two countries . Perhaps Korean workers have been ...
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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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