Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London 1880-1914
Title | Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London 1880-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | A. Godley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2001-07-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0333993861 |
How successful were the East European Jewish immigrants in London compared with the vast majority that went to New York? This critical question - one that lies at the heart of debates on Jewish modernity, ethnic and racial assimilation, and the impact of culture on entrepreneurship - is assessed systematically for the first time in this volume. Using new evidence of Jewish immigration, mobility and assimilation, Andrew Godley shows that despite similar backgrounds and opportunities, the Jews in London were far less entrepreneurial and those in New York. As the Jewish immigrants assimilated either American or British cultural values, those in New York moved en masse into self-employment, while those in London opted to remain as workers. Godley then reinterprets the broad thrust of British twentieth century economic history, emphasising how these long-standing anti-entrepreneurial and highly conservative craft cultural values among the English working classes acted as a drag on innovation, hampering industrial relations, investment and growth.
Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London
Title | Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Godley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Corporate culture |
ISBN | 9780333793282 |
Enterprise and culture
Title | Enterprise and culture PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew C. Godley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 1993 |
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Jewish Soft Loan Societies in New York and London and Immigrant Entrepreneurship, 1880-1914
Title | Jewish Soft Loan Societies in New York and London and Immigrant Entrepreneurship, 1880-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Godley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Commercial credit |
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The Jewish Immigrants in New York and London, 1880-1914
Title | The Jewish Immigrants in New York and London, 1880-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Trine Elmakies |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2007 |
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The Jewish immigrants in New York and London, 1880-1914
Title | The Jewish immigrants in New York and London, 1880-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Trine Elmakies |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2007 |
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The Rag Race
Title | The Rag Race PDF eBook |
Author | Adam D. Mendelsohn |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1479814385 |
Argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, Mendelsohn demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting. --From publisher description.