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Subject(s)

• Minority business enterprises—United States—History [Browse]
• Small business—Social aspects—United States—History [Browse]
• Customer relations—Social aspects—United States—History [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Black Entrepreneurship from 1900 until 1935
• 3. Immigrant Entrepreneurs' Relations with Customers in the Early Twentieth Century
• 4. The Fate of Minority Merchants during Depression and War
• 5. Government Policy, Ghettos, and Merchant-Customer Conflict after World War II
• 6. Demorgraphic Change and Urban Transformation: Interactions between Immigrant Business Owners and Customers, 1970 to 2005
• 7. The Informal Economy as a Site of Competition between Disadvantaged Populations and Ethnic Merchants
• 8. Ethnic Merchants in a Black Majority City: The Case of Detroit (with Joe Darden)
• 9. Social Inequality and Merchant-Customer Conflicts.

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ISBN

• 9781442206236 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1442206233 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781442206250 (electronic)
• 144220625X (electronic)

LCCN

2010014670

OCLC

607084289

Other standard number

• 40018418198

RCP

C - S

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