Urbanization, disadvantage, and petty entrepreneurship: Street peddling among African American men in southern and northern cities during the early twentieth century

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 216-235

  Boyd, Robert L ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1999.tb00500.x     Document Type: Article

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