Race, labor market disadvantage, and survivalist entrepreneurship: Black women in the urban North during the Great Depression

Sociological Forum

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 647-670

  Boyd, Robert L ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; Entrepreneurship; Great depression; Northern cities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034358416     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007563016120     Document Type: Article

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