A decade in preparation, Immigrant Entrepreneurs offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America’s new immigrants. By the mid-1970s Americans had already become aware that Korean immigrants were opening, buying, and operating numerous business enterprises in major cities. When Koreans flourished in small business, Americans wanted to know how immigrants could find lucrative business opportunities where native-born Americans could not. Somewhat later, when Korean-black conflicts surfaced in a number of cities, Americans also began to fear the implications for intergroup relations of immigrant entrepreneurs who start in the middle rather than at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy.
Nowhere was immigrant enterprise more obvious or impressive than in Los Angeles, the world’s largest Korean settlement outside of Korea and America’s premier city of small business. Analyzing both the short-run and the long-run causes of Korean entrepreneurship, the authors explain why the Koreans could find, acquire, and operate small business firms more easily than could native-born residents. They also provide a context for distinguishing clashes of culture and clashes of interest which cause black-Korean tensions in cities, and for framing effective policies to minimize the tensions.
A decade in preparation, Immigrant Entrepreneurs offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America’s new immigrants. By the mid-19
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Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
PART ONE INTRODUCTION
I. Immigrant Entrepreneurs in America
PART TWO THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT AND THE ROOTS OF EMIGRATION
2. Cheap Labor in South Korea: The U.S. Role
3. The Role of the Korean Government
4. Emigration from South Korea
PART THREE KOREAN BUSINESS IN LOS ANGELES
5. Immigration and Settlement
6. Entrepreneurs and Firms
7. Class and Ethnic Resources
8. Business Location
9. The Retail Liquor Industry
10. Raising Capital
11. Sources of Entrepreneurship
12. Reaction and Solidarity
PART FOUR KOREAN SMALL BUSINESS IN AMERICAN CAPITALISM
13. The Protection of U.S. Labor Standards
14. The Cheapness of Korean Immigrant Small Business
15. The Use of Korean Small Business by U.S. Capital
16. The Making of Immigrant Small Business
PART FIVE CONCLUSION
17. The Costs of Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Appendix: Telephone Survey, 1977
Notes
References
Index
Sobre o autor
Ivan Light is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Edna Bonacich is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.
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