Includes bibliographical references and index.

"How do Americans develop business enterprises for community and individual economic stability? This book emphasizes immigrant and "minority" entrepreneurship, providing rich historical research and recent analyses of these issues. The authors show that an analysis of the 1910 data reveals that black Americans were more likely than white Americans to be employers, and almost as likely as whites to be selfemployed. We also learn that the immigrant experience includes unauthorized aliens, poverty, and the rise of vibrant business communities." "While all immigrant groups contain self-employed individuals, this book reveals that the rate is more than double that of the domestic population and triple that of native-born "minorities." Within the context of America's increased entrepreneurialism during the last decades of the 20th century, the number of women-owned enterprises increased more than 57 percent between, for example, 1982 and 1987. Top scholars in the field of immigrant and "minority" entrepreneurship discuss data that concentrate on new venture development and how immigrants incubate their enterprises. Groups included are Chinese, Vietnamese, African Americans, and Women. Book jacket."--Jacket.

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