Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction: A Summary View of Small Business and American Life 1
5. 1. Independence and Enterprise: Small Business in the American Dream 28
6. 2. The Revolutionary Charleston Mechanic 49
7. 3. From Artisan to Manufacturer: Industrialization and the Small Producer in Newark, 1830–60 80
8. 4. Black Coats to White Collars: Economic Change, Nonmanual Work, and the Social Structure of Industrializing America 100
9. 5. Small Business and Occupational Mobility in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie 122
10. 6. The Position of Small Business in the Structure of American Manufacturing, 1870–1970 142
11. 7. Master Printers Organize: The Typothetae of the City of New York, 1865–1906 169
12. 8. Origins of Small Business and the Relationships Between Large and Small Firms: Metal Fabricating and Machinery Making in New England, 1890–1957 192
13. 9. The Effects of Industrialization on Small Retailing in the United States in the Twentieth Century 212
14. 10. Small-Business Banking in the United States, 1780–1920 240
15. 11. Labor and Small-Scale Enterprise During Industrialization 263
16. 12. The Financing of Small Business in the United States 280
17. 13. Law and Small Business in the United States: One Hundred Years of Struggle and Accommodation 305
18. 14. Small Business and Urban Power: Some Notes on the History of Economic Policy in Nineteenth-Century American Cities 319
19. 15. Lilliputians in Brobdingnag: Small Business in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 338
20. 16. Economics and Culture in the Gilded Age Hatting Industry 352
21. 17. The Role of Small Business in the Process of Skill Acquisition 366
22. Index 381