About this title: In this text, the author finds that self-employment and upward mobility are open to those who are highly educated and skilled, often possessing significant personal financial resources. Asian immigrants are prominent in low-profit, high-risk small-scale inner-city retailing, Bates explains, because they are often pushed into it by poor English ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1-15-98
ISBN-13:9780801857980ISBN:0801857988
Description: GOOD. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with moderate shelfwear/edgewear to the boards, missing dust jacket and a publisher's mark to one edge-Nice! ! 1.4 lbs. read more
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. VG+/--, soft cover no jacket, 1st printing, very good condition, tight binding, clean pages/text, covers in very good condition, 288 pages. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780801857997ISBN:0801857996
Description: Very Good+. Slight bend to front cover. 304 pp. 0801857996. Race, Self-Employment, and Upward Mobility refutes conventional notions about entrepreneurship with a wealth of unimpeachable data. Timothy Bates finds that self-employment and upward mobility are open to those who are highly educated and skilled, often possessing significant personal financial resources. This is true among Asian Americans, African Americans, and everybody else, too. Asian immigrants are prominent in low-profit, high ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1/15/1998
ISBN-13:9780801857997ISBN:0801857996
Description: Very Good. 0801857996. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Appears to have been gently read once. Inside pages are clean. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801857997ISBN:0801857996
Description: Good. 0801857996 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801857997ISBN:0801857996
Description: New. 0801857996 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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