Class, ethnicity, gender and Latino entrepreneurship

• Main Author: Verdaguer, María Eugenia.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: New approaches in sociology.
• Subjects: Equality.; Social change.; Social justice.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Entrepreneurship.; Electronic books.
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Verdaguer examines first-generation Latino entrepreneurs, revealing not only that Latinos' strategies for access to business ownership and development are cut across class, ethnic and gender lines, but also that immigrants' options and practices remain shaped by patriarchal gender relation...

Table of Contents:

• Latino entrepreneurship reconsidered : an overview of the study
• Theorizing immigrant entrepreneurship
• Divergent Latino immigrant stories : Salvadorans and Peruvians in America
• The Washington area opportunity structure and Latino entrepreneurs
• Class resources, group cohesion and business strategies
• Ethnicity and business strategies
• Gender and resource mobilization strategies
• Social networks, social capital and embeddedness
• Conclusion : the social bases and consequences of Latino entrepreneurship.