05488nam 22006494a 450 991080856810332120240515221040.0979-88-908766-4-50-8078-6233-9(CKB)1000000000713059(OCoLC)53929196(CaPaEBR)ebrary10202628(SSID)ssj0000172233(PQKBManifestationID)12039713(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172233(PQKBWorkID)10151973(PQKB)11017142(SSID)ssj0000280316(PQKBManifestationID)11228857(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280316(PQKBWorkID)10290355(PQKB)11211445(Au-PeEL)EBL3039471(CaPaEBR)ebr10202628(MiAaPQ)EBC3039471(EXLCZ)99100000000071305920021003d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA history of small business in America /Mansel G. Blackford2nd ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20031 online resource (230 p.) The Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the stateBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8078-2780-0 0-8078-5453-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- What Is Small? -- The Importance of Small Business in America -- Scholarship Dealing with Small Business -- The Scope of this Study -- Additional Reading -- 1. Small Business before 1880 -- Economic Growth and Limitations on Business Development -- Enterprise in Trade and Commerce -- The Business of Farming -- Artisans and Early-Day Manufacturing -- Service Businesses -- Women in Business -- African Americans in Business -- Toward a Business Ideology -- Small Business by the Time of the American Civil War -- Additional Reading -- 2. Small Business in the Age of Giant Enterprise, 1880-1920 -- Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business -- Public Attitudes and Government Policies -- Small Business in Manufacturing -- Industrial Districts -- Agriculture: The Continuing Family Farm -- Small Business in Distribution and Services -- America's Businesses in a Dual Economy -- Women and Minorities in Small Business -- Blurring and Cooperation between Big and Small Business -- Small Business Thought -- American Small Business at the Time of World War I -- Additional Reading -- 3. Industrial Districts and Stand-Alone Companies -- Large and Small Firms in Steel Districts -- Stand-Alone Companies in Steel and Other Metals -- Successful Small Metal Manufacturers -- Additional Reading -- 4. Small Business in Boom and Bust, 1921-1945 -- American Attitudes toward Small Business -- Government Policies during the Interwar Years -- Small Business and Government during World War II -- Small and Large Business in Manufacturing -- Small Business in Japanese Manufacturing -- Small Business in Retailing -- Small Business in Farming -- Small Business at Mid-Century -- Additional Reading -- 5. Specialty Products and Niche Markets -- The Formation of the Company -- Work and Life in Alaska.A Successful Small Business -- Expansion and Merger -- Wakefield Seafoods and American Small Business -- Additional Reading -- 6. Small Business in an Expanding Economy, 1946-1971 -- Public Attitudes toward Business -- Postwar Government Policies for Small Business -- The Small Business Administration -- The Impact of Federal Government Programs -- Small Business in Manufacturing -- Sales and Services -- Farming and Small Business -- The Small Business Person -- Small Business by the 1970s -- Additional Reading -- 7. Small Firms in the Silicon Valley -- The Origins of Silicon Valley -- Efforts to Replicate Silicon Valley -- High Technology Efforts in the Hawaiian Islands -- Success and Failure in High Technology Businesses -- Additional Reading -- 8. Small Business in Modern America, 1972-2000 -- Small Business and Big Business in Modern America -- Small Business in Manufacturing -- Small Business in Sales and Services -- Agribusiness and the Family Farm -- International Comparisons of Small Business -- Innovation and Job Creation -- The Small Business Person -- Small Business in a NewMillennium -- Additional Reading -- 9. Independent Bookstores in a Time of Consolidation -- Consolidation and Competition in Bookselling -- Responses of Independent Bookstores -- K&amp -- M Books of Cleveland, Ohio -- Success in Bookselling -- Additional Reading -- Conclusion -- The Evolution of Small Business in America -- Research Needs -- Additional Reading -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D -- E-G -- H-I -- J-K -- L-M -- N-O -- P-R -- S -- T-W -- Y-Z.Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state.Small businessUnited StatesHistorySmall businessGovernment policyUnited StatesHistorySmall businessHistory.Small businessGovernment policyHistory.338.6/42/0973Blackford Mansel G.1944-916017MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808568103321A history of small business in America4099338UNINA