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