BOTTOM-UP GLOBALISATION
Laurie Taylor is joined by , Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Monder Ram, Professor of Small Business Research at De Montfort University to discuss their on-going investigations into the activities of Europe’s immigrant entrepreneurs.
One sector where the influence of ethnic minority businesses can be seen is the garment industry. The Rag Trade, complete with its backdrop of Dickensian sweat shops was expected to be one of the casualties of globalisation economic gurus long predicted that globalisation would result in economies of scale making the small family business a thing of the past.Ìý
But against all predictions, the Rag Trade has hung on and even expanded.Ìý New centres of the business have emerged in several European cities, including Amsterdam and Birmingham, and the prime movers have been the growing ethnic minority populations.
Historically Europeans have tended to see immigrants purely as a supply of cheap labour but now the immigrants are going into business for themselves and as Laurie hears, Europe is beginning to wake up to their economic potential.
Additional information:
Unravelling The Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship In Seven World Cities
edited by JanRath
Berg Publishers ÌýISBN 1859734235
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Venturing Abroad in the Age of Globalization
edited by Robert Kloosterman and Jan Rath
Berg PublishersÌý ISBN: 1859736394
August 2003
Professor Monder Ram publications:
Managing to Survive: Working Lives in Small Firms
(Warwick Studies in Industrial Relations)
by Monder Ram
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN: 0631191097
Unravelling the Hidden Clothing Industry: Managing the Ethnic Minority Garment Sector
from Restructuring Within a Labour Intensive Industry: The UK Clothing Industry in Transition
edited by Ian M.Taplin & Jonathan Winterton
Avebury ÌýISBN: 1859723225
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