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Around The Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
by Shachtman, Tom
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151000778
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000777
- Seller
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Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt. Dust jacket is covered with mylar jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1997.
Synopsis
In Around the Block, Tom Shachtman makes Adam Smith's "invisible hand" visible in the daily life of a number of small businesses in an ordinary, middle class block in New York City. Looking at The Block's economic life over the course of a year, Shachtman explores the everyday tragedies and triumphs hidden from view behind the shop windows and in offices. Behind the abstractions of economists, a single block in the Chelsea section of Manhattan is the stage for the personal commitments and risks of small business-a father commits suicide so that his business can avoid bankruptcy; a Korean liquor store owner finds himself caught between tow worlds; a computer game programmer leaves her job and risks her career for an idea of her own. Shachtman puts a human face on the challenges that businesses weather every day. We see how small business is integral to America's national health, responsible for job growth while building social ties in a country mired by polarization. In this very human story about work and community, Tom Shachtman writes not the economics of textbooks and graphs buth the stuff of our lives.
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- Bookseller
- McAllister & Solomon Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110783
- Title
- Around The Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
- Author
- Shachtman, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151000778
- ISBN 13
- 9780151000777
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 336
- Keywords
- New York
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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