Doing Business With Beauty - Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy

Informationen zum Autor By Adia Harvey Wingfield Klappentext Using in-depth interviews with hair salon owners, Doing Business with Beauty explores several facets of the business of owning a hair salon, including the process of becoming an owner, the dynamics of the owner-employee relationship, and the factors that steer black women to work in the hair industry. Harvey Wingfield examines the black female business owner's struggle for autonomy and success in entrepreneurship. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: The Racial Enclave EconomyChapter 2: Black Entrepreneurship in Historical ContextChapter 3: Business Decisions in the Racial Enclave EconomyChapter 4: A Pathway to Financial SecurityChapter 5: Stereotypes and Social SupportChapter 6: Ethnic Divisions in the Racial EnclaveConclusionAppendix ANotesReferences

Product details

• Authors: Adia Harvey Wingfield, Harvey Wingfield Adia, Adia Harvey Wingfield
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9780742561175
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6117-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Perspectives on a Multiracial; Perspectives on a Multiracial America; Perspectives on a Multiracial
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship