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Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982
By Edna Bonacich, Ivan Huber Light
528 pages
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- University of California Press
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- Berkeley
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- 1988
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
- References xiii
- Preface xv
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvi
- Part One - Introduction 1
- 1 - Immigrant Entrepreneurs in America 3
- Summary 24
- Part Two - The International Context and the Roots of Emigration 25
- 2 - Cheap Labor in South Korea: The U.S. Role 27
- 3 - The Role of the Korean Government 68
- 4 - Emigration From South Korea 102
- Conclusion 124
- Part Three - Korean Business in Los Angeles 127
- 5 - Immigration and Settlement 129
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
- References xiii
- Preface xv
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvi
- Part One - Introduction 1
- 1 - Immigrant Entrepreneurs in America 3
- Summary 24
- Part Two - The International Context and the Roots of Emigration 25
- 2 - Cheap Labor in South Korea: The U.S. Role 27
- 3 - The Role of the Korean Government 68
- 4 - Emigration From South Korea 102
- Conclusion 124
- Part Three - Korean Business in Los Angeles 127
- 5 - Immigration and Settlement 129
- Summary and Conclusion 155
- 6 - Entrepreneurs and Firms 156
- Summary and Conclusion 175
- 7 - Class and Ethnic Resources 178
- Summary 203
- 8 - Business Location 205
- Summary and Conclusion 225
- 9 - The Retail Liquor Industry 227
- Conclusion 242
- 10 - Raising Capital 243
- Conclusion 271
- 11 - Sources of Entrepreneurship 273
- Conclusion 297
- 12 - Reaction and Solidarity 300
- Part Four - Korean Small Business in American Capitalism 329
- 13 - The Protection of U.S. Labor Standards 331
- Conclusion 351
- 14 - The Cheapness of Korean Immigrant Small Business 354
- Conclusion 370
- 15 - The Use of Korean Small Business by U.S. Capital 371
- Conclusion 400
- 16 - The Making of Immigrant Small Business 401
- Conclusion 420
- Part Five - Conclusion 423
- 17 - The Costs of Immigrant Entrepreneurship 425
- Appendix: Telephone Survey, 1977 437
- Notes 439
- References 463
- Index 487