Small Business in American Life / / ed. by Stuart W. Bruchey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bensman, David,; Berthoff, Rowland,; Blumin, Stuart Μ.,; Brody, David,; Friedman, Lawrence M.,; Ginzberg, Eli,; Griffen, Clyde,; Griffen, Sally,; Hammack, David C.,; Hirsch, Susan E.,; Hollander, Stanley C.,; Livesay, Harold C.,; Robinson, Roland I.,; Soltow, James H.,; Sylla, Richard,; Tichenor, Irene,; Vatter, Harold G.,; Walsh, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Bruchey, Stuart W.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 1980
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

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

Table of Contents

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