A history of small business in America [electronic resource] / Mansel G. Blackford

Author	Blackford, Mansel G., 1944-
Title	A history of small business in America [electronic resource] / Mansel G. Blackford
Imprint	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Edition	2nd ed
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Descript	xii, 216 p. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Small business before 1880 -- Small business in the age of giant enterprise, 1880-1920 -- Industrial districts and stand-alone companies -- Small business in boom and bust, 1921-1945 -- Specialty products and niche markets -- Small business in an expanding economy, 1946-1971 -- Small firms in the Silicon Valley -- Small business in modern America, 1972-2000 -- Independent bookstores in a time of consolidation

Small business -- United States -- History Small business -- Government policy -- United States -- History Electronic books.