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Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood Hardcover - 1997
by Tom Shachtman
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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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- Title Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
- Author Tom Shachtman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
- Date 1997-09-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780151000777 / 0151000778
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.24 x 1.26 in (23.55 x 15.85 x 3.20 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Small business - Social aspects - New York, Neighborhood - New York (State) - New York -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97016306
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.642
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