essay
Small business and social mobility among Italian Americans
their languages, literature, and lives: proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 11-13, 1987 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1990 • Pages: 201-214
By: Sanchirico, Andrew.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Italian-American small-business ownership and its role in social mobility. Although Italians were part of the mass migration of unskilled laborers during the1880s, by 1900 they were second only to Russian Jews in percentage of self-employed retailers. A third of the immigrants who stayed became self-employed by the end of their careers. The trend of self-employment continued into the next generation. Sanchirico attributes the demand for ethnic food and the importance of the family over the individual in influencing this trend. He also argues that it was an independent small business ethos which accounted for the successful attainment of professional occupations by second- and third-generation Italian-Americans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Labor supply and employment
- Individual enterprise
- Accumulation of wealth
- Ethnic stratification
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Andrew Sanchirico
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-214)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90083301
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans