In the field of minority entrepreneurship, sociologists and economists have written most of
the influential studies, yet these groups typically ask different questions and base their …

In recent years, a growing literature has suggested that self-employment is a viable means
of solving economic problems for a wide range of groups who are subject to poverty …

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and
imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

The existing literature shows that the knowledge and skills of managers and organizational
culture are key elements to innovate. We present a model that explores the relationship of …

La economía global no se expande sin consecuencias: creciente desigualdad y desempleo,
cada vez más poblaciones desplazadas o encarceladas, destrucción de la tierra y del agua …

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a
comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its …

My paper proposes the concept of relational work to explain economic activity. In all
economic action, I argue, people engage in the process of differentiating meaningful social …

For many, reflexivity is a core tenet in qualitative research. Often, scholars focus on how one
or two of their socio-demographic traits compare to their participants and how it may …

Although illegal markets have considerable economic significance and are of theoretical
importance, they have been largely ignored by economic sociology. In the first part of this …