History of Small Business in America

Online-Ressource (230 p)

Description based upon print version of record

""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""

ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW