book chapter
Vengo per fare l'America: the sojourner businessman
New explorations in Italian American studies: proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Washington, D.C., November 12-14, 1992 • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1992 • Pages: 91-99
By: La Sorte, Michael.
Abstract
This is a paper on immigrant grocery businesses and Italian American involvement in it. LaSorte makes several general statements and then illustrates them with the life histories of two Italian-American grocers in Utica, New York, one successful and one not.
- Subjects
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Retail marketing
- Retail businesses
- Sales promotion
- Individual enterprise
- Competition
- culture
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field Date
- Not Specified
- Coverage Date
- 1900-1911
- Coverage Place
- Utica, N.Y., United States
- Notes
- [Michael La Sorte]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-99)
- LCCN
- 94032166
- LCSH
- Italian Americans