Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy

ISBN-13: 9780742561175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 176 str.

Adia Harvey Wingfield

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Using in-depth interviews with hair salon owners, Doing Business with Beauty explores several facets of the business of owning a hair salon, including the process of becoming an owner, the dynamics of the owner-employee relationship, and the factors that steer black women to work in the hair industry. Harvey Wingfield examines the black female business owner's struggle for autonomy and success in entrepreneurship.