From head shops to whole foods : the rise and fall of activist entrepreneurs / Joshua Clark Davis.
Series: Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalismPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780231171588 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Business enterprises -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Small business -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Entrepreneurship -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Social movements -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
- Business and politics -- United States -- History
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- HD2785 .D33 2017
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Book | NMC Library | Stacks | HD2785 .D33 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001430684 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The origins and ideologies of activist business -- Liberation through literacy: African American bookstores, Black Power, and the -- Mainstreaming of black books -- The business of getting high: head shops, countercultural capitalism, and the battle over marijuana -- "The feminist economic revolution": businesses in the women's movement -- Natural foods stores: environmental entrepreneurs and the perils of growth -- Perseverance and appropriation: activist business in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion.
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