IMMIGRANT AND ETHNIC ENTERPRISE IN NORTH-AMERICA
IMMIGRANT AND ETHNIC ENTERPRISE IN NORTH-AMERICA
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DOI：
10.1080/01419870.1984.9993441
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
LIGHT, I
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作者：
LIGHT, I
在1820年至1830年的十年间，80%的自由美国白人拥有自己的生活手段（科里，1966:113）。这十年是美国个体经营的高峰，随后的趋势显示出几乎不间断的下降。一代又一代的社会学家宣称，现代美国的商业自营职业已经成为一种经济上的时代错误，正在消失（light, 1979: 31）。在这一点上，他们遵循马克思的观点，观察到资本的不断集中减少了上个世纪曾经众多的自由企业家阶层。事实上，30年前，CW Mills（1951）就已经表明，1870年至1950年间，美国农业和非农业个体经营的持续下降：
In the decade 1820-30, 80 per cent of free white Americans owned their own means of livelihood (Corey, 1966: 113). This decade was the highwater mark of self-employment in America, and subsequent trends have shown an almost uninterrupted decline. Generations of sociologists have declared that business self-employment in the modern United States has become an economic anachronism which is in the process of disappearance (light, 1979: 31). Following Marx on this point, they have observed that the progressive concentration of capital reduced the once numerous class of free enterpreneurs that existed in the last century. Indeed, three decades ago CW Mills (1951) already showed the steady decline of agricultural and non-agricultural self-employment in the United States between 1870 and 1950: