Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914. Enterprise and culture

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Scholarly account by an author who writes that 'the main purpose of this book has been to discover whether the British culture c1914 was in anyway anti entrepreneurial'. Uses a control population - two groups with a common culture in two different locations - 'to test for the common effects of assimilating British and American cultural values'. Arranged in three parts, viz: Part 1. A. 'Enterprise and culture': - 'economics of culture'; 'the late Victorian entrepreneur in British culture - the state of the debate'; the market for entrepreneurship'; 'testing for an entrepreneurial culture'; 'Jewish immigrants as a control population in late 19th century UK and USA'; Part 2. B. 'Jewish immigrants in New York and London, 1880-1914': - 'Jewish history of East European Jewish mass migration'; C. 'Statistics of Anglo Jewry and the synagogue marriage records, 1880-1914'; D. 'Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in London and New York'; E. 'Jewish mass migration and the choice of destination'; F. 'Entrepreneurship and profits in the Jewish immigrant economies of London and New York': - 'costs of entry'; 'Jewish economies of London and New York'; 'development of the American and London clothing industries'; 'Jewish clothing industries of New York and London'; 'profits in the New York and London Jewish clothing industries'; G. 'Cultural assimilation among Jewish immigrants in London and New York': - 'Jewish immigrant journeymen in London '; 'cultural assimilation among Jewish immigrant journeymen'; 'occupation and assimilation'; Part 3. 'Entrepreneurship and culture in Britain': H. 'Entrepreneurship, culture and British 'declinism': - 'working class craft culture in England'; 'Jewish assimilation and Jewish history'; 'culture in economics'; 'British culture and 'declinism''; ''Declinism' and the British motor car industry' . See the writer's doctoral thesis, 'Enterprise and Culture. Jewish immigrants in London and New York, 1880-1914', LSE, 1993; ' 'Cultural determinants of Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship in the UK and USA, 1880-1914' in A Godley & O M Westall (eds), Business History and Business Culture', Palgrave, 2001; 'Jewish immigrant entrepreneurship and British and American enterprise culture, 1880-1914' in M Davids et al (eds), Proceedings of the Conference on Business History', 1995