Small Business in American Life

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Small Business in American Life

Edited by: Stuart W. Bruchey

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1980

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Presents essays concerned with the impact of industrialization on small business in the United States from the late 18th century onward.

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Business and Economics Political Economics Political Economics, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: A Summary View of Small Business and American Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. Independence and Enterprise: Small Business in the American Dream Rowland Berthoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
2. The Revolutionary Charleston Mechanic Richard Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
3. From Artisan to Manufacturer: Industrialization and the Small Producer in Newark, 1830–60 Susan E. Hirsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	80
4. Black Coats to White Collars: Economic Change, Nonmanual Work, and the Social Structure of Industrializing America Stuart Μ. Blumin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
5. Small Business and Occupational Mobility in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
6. The Position of Small Business in the Structure of American Manufacturing, 1870–1970 Harold G. Vatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
7. Master Printers Organize: The Typothetae of the City of New York, 1865–1906 Irene Tichenor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
8. Origins of Small Business and the Relationships Between Large and Small Firms: Metal Fabricating and Machinery Making in New England, 1890–1957 James H. Soltow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
9. The Effects of Industrialization on Small Retailing in the United States in the Twentieth Century Stanley C. Hollander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	212
10. Small-Business Banking in the United States, 1780–1920 Richard Sylla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	240
11. Labor and Small-Scale Enterprise During Industrialization David Brody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
12. The Financing of Small Business in the United States Roland I. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
13. Law and Small Business in the United States: One Hundred Years of Struggle and Accommodation Lawrence M. Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
14. Small Business and Urban Power: Some Notes on the History of Economic Policy in Nineteenth-Century American Cities David C. Hammack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
15. Lilliputians in Brobdingnag: Small Business in Late-Nineteenth-Century America Harold C. Livesay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	338
16. Economics and Culture in the Gilded Age Hatting Industry David Bensman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	352
17. The Role of Small Business in the Process of Skill Acquisition Eli Ginzberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	366
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381

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May 6, 2019

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9780231890649

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396

https://doi.org/10.7312/bruc92824

eBook ISBN: 9780231890649

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