A history of small business in America / / Mansel G. Blackford

• Autore: Blackford Mansel G. <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.6/42/0973
• Soggetto topico: Small business - United States - History; Small business - Government policy - United States - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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& -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A history of small business in America
• ISBN: 979-88-908766-4-5; 0-8078-6233-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808568103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state.