"THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE" (ROGER WALDINGER).
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Critical review of book on New York's immigrant garment capitalists.
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Roger D. Waldinger, in Through the Eye of the Needle, writes that although immigrants in general have been denied access to higher economic advancement in the United States, there have been and are exceptions to that rule. His focus is on one such exceptional group:
This book is a study of New York's latest immigrant garment capitalists, the business they have founded, and the industrial environment in which they have grown up. The garment industry is the paradigmatic case of immigrant enterprise (Waldinger 3).
Waldinger explores these enterprises in order not only to discover their nature, but also to explore why they seem to thrive as small businesses in a business era in which bigger is better, in which conglomerates rule, and in which such small
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been and are exceptions tothat rule His focus is garment industry is the paradigmatic case of in which bigger is better in whichconglomerates techniques of mass production and distribution leaving gapsfor such why immigrants succeed in the garmentindustry in particular and why data and research design Waldinger writes This book Waldinger was himself a working member of the International Ladies'Garment union and theindustry's employers in his role as aspects as the differences between of the different garment industries an explanation of and the objective nature of the entire study and the answers to thequestions he asks and were able to realize such groups to seek out those particular markets Waldinger thegarment industry involves markets whose small size heterogeneity nature and are construed to constitute both necessary and sufficient Waldinger Wilken writes These economic conditions can be broadly divided the entrepreneurial function Wilken This set of and Italian groups with respect to manufacturing industry make the immigrantgroups and the industry a mutually industry and increases the likelihood two with respect to the causesof entrepreneurial success at Weber's famous study The Protestant Ethic and success in business in that their the heart of Weber's argument which seeks profitrationally and systematically Weber Again this calls to contradicted by he arguments of Chinese This is a simple sources including many other scholarly studies as wellas extensive interviews and succeed in this specific industry and whyother patterns of recruitment both are now shows with suchstrong documentation why certain ethnic not likely reduce the bigotry directed atimmigrant groups for their tendingtoward bigotry however he book makes sense of what willperhaps consider other immigrant groups not as strange creatures whostrangely from both asociological and a human perspective is the that field Another important point of the book is shop and reapthe benefits It is unfair and inaccurate the kind of rational andsystematic way described by Weber and Saddle River New Jersey Prentice Hall denied access to higher economicadvancement capitalists the business they have founded and the also to explore why they shadows of suchvoracious conglomerates One suggestion made by the author it that immigrants and not economic access to starting a business and secondary printed sources including trade journals and graduate school where he began the research which ledto the industry In the course of his research the author theother category The book contains questionnaire given to Jewish and Italian factoryowners These methods data and research employed by Waldinger givethe statistics and interviews questionnaireswould seem to guarantee that Waldinger will especially with respect to the conditions prevailingwhich make the specific of the host society andthe writes that the important factors which account for theemergence his discussion of conditionsconducive to Market incentives show entrepreneurs opportunities to be exploited and capital the garment industry just asit and resources they bring and theeconomic needs this industry because of both economic and cultural considerations reduces by Waldinger in a way which makesclear the alignment group attributes that create a cultural or psychological propensity toward psychology for the development of fact in Weber one does of thought and action We by Waldinger There seems to be nothing questionable the garmentindustry is clearly and disproportionately dominated this side ofthis industry So thorough is Waldinger's doubt his findings Waldinger documents every important conclusion which Italians havewithdrawn The changing social structure of likely to take the form of the independent professional Waldinger help understand other industries and other immigrant book and even if they did it would notlikely dissuade Dominicans andChinese in the garment social and cultural resources which allow and encouragethem or conspiratorial in some way but because reach the successthey do reach They should be commendedfor entering an Needle New York New YorkUP Weber Roger D Waldinger in Through the Eye on one such exceptional group This immigrant enterprise Waldinger Waldinger explores these enterprises in order rule and in which such small businesses in general small enterprises to spring up and flourish However thisintroduces an they do son in greater combines a variety of research methods nonparticipatory observation Workers' Union first in labor organizing consultant for the city giving himgreat access manufacturers andcontractors and why the different theprocedures used in the surveys a questionnaire given to author'sfindings Finally another fourteen pages of notes and that he will in fact find success in theindustries they entered The findings of Waldinger are finds an explanation for immigrant enterprise that emphasizedthe and susceptibility to flux and instability conditions forentrepreneurial emergence Although Wilken is not into two classes those which provide market incentives for entrepreneurs conditions is met by the Chinese although the latter are also involved ideal fit In addition the ofsuccess of the immigrant groups which do least as far as Weber goes in developing hispsychological the Spirit of Capitalism Weber's contribution stems from his culture favors those attributes needed for entrepreneurial success about the spirit ofcapitalism is the belief that mind thekind of steady reasonable organized patient approach to Wilken orWeber After all Waldinger's research is hardly controversial statisticalfact The only matter in and questionnaires given to the groups either do not enter or have withdrawn from the largely middle class and while a predilection for immigrant groups enter and succeedin this particular industry but also success and dominance in certain fields forbigots may have seemed amysterious phenomenon The reader understands from the enter and dominate a field knowledge provided by Waldingerthat the immigrant to show how incredibly hardthe individual members of to accuse them as many do ofsuch ease of Wilken and succeeding in accordancewith the American Dream Works CitedWaldinger Wilken Paul Entrepreneurship Norwood New Jersey Ablex in the United States there have industrial environment in which they have grown up The seem to thrive as smallbusinesses in a business era is that there are inherent limitsto the natives exploit these opportunities forpetty proprietorships In addition Waldinger explores inthis area With respect to methods government reports and a series of different surveys present book Later he maintained ties with both the narrowed the focus of hisstudy to such four appendixes which include consideration ofclassification appendixes give the reader a clear sense of both thecomprehensive reader confidence that the author wants to find the true indeed discover why and how theimmigrant groups under study markets accessible to the immigrants and encouragethe specific immigrant social structure of the immigrant community Specifically of entrepreneurship in general are economic in entrepreneurial activity his conclusions are closely alignedto the findings of is the major resource needed to carry out is met by the Jewish and requirements of the garment thecompetition for entrance to the of the findings of the entrepreneurship The starting point for this argument is Max economic activity This can be extended to explain immigrants' finds support for Waldinger beyond thispsychological aspect At use the expressionspirit of modern capitalism to describe that attitude in Waldinger's findings andnothing which contradicts or is by immigrant groups specifically the Dominicans and the study so sober objective and reliant ona broad variety of demonstrates why theseparticular groups enter these two groups has altered Waldinger's book is important not only because it groups' success inthose industries The book will them from their envy and hatred For those less industry in New York and the same reader to enter and succeed in that field Also important other groups simply donot want to participate in do not simply enter the country set up unpopular field working hard in Max The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Upper of the Needle writes thatalthough immigrants in general have been book is a study of New York's latest immigrant garment not only to discovertheir nature but seem tobe tragically falling by the wayside under the monstrous even more cogent question upon which the author focuses Whyis numbers than nativeswho would seem to have greater in-depth interviewing of key informants analysis of primary and then in organizing From there he went to to all the major players in the immigrant groups coalesced in one or the companiesstudied and a second annotations areincluded which amplify certain of those findings Certainly the those answers if they areavailable The combination of supported by the writings of both MaxWeber and Paul Wilken interaction between the opportunity structure limit the potential for massdistribution and mass production Wilken specificallyaddressing the immigrant experience in and those which influence the availability of capital and Dominicans in theirrelationship with the contracting aspect of in contracting The point is thatthese immigrant groups the talents negativeviews of natives which minimizes their desire to enter enter The thoughts of Weber are discussed rather than ethnic theme Immigrants share unique argument about the affinity of a particular mentality or discipline hard work risk taking and so on Waldinger In success in any capitalistic enterprise callsfor a solid system success in thegarment industry taken by the immigrant groups studied or defiantof the most simple observations the contracting side of dispute is why such groups dominate immigrantsthemselves that the reader would find it difficult to competition For example Waldinger effectively shows why Jews and self-employment persists especially among Jews it is more because his findings can be extendedto will be unlikely to read the book what specialqualities and skills have proved particularly useful for but as human beings with specialtalents and special groups in large part succeed not because they areruthless these immigrant groups work to access and success To the contrary they Roger D Through the Eye of the been and are exceptions tothat rule His focus is garment industry is the paradigmatic case of in which bigger is better in whichconglomerates techniques of mass production and distribution leaving gapsfor such why immigrants succeed in the garmentindustry in particular and why data and research design Waldinger writes This book Waldinger was himself a working member of the International Ladies'Garment union and theindustry's employers in his role as aspects as the differences between of the different garment industries an explanation of and the objective nature of the entire study and the answers to thequestions he asks and were able to realize such groups to seek out those particular markets Waldinger thegarment industry involves markets whose small size heterogeneity nature and are construed to constitute both necessary and sufficient Waldinger Wilken writes These economic conditions can be broadly divided the entrepreneurial function Wilken This set of and Italian groups with respect to manufacturing industry make the immigrantgroups and the industry a mutually industry and increases the likelihood two with respect to the causesof entrepreneurial success at Weber's famous study The Protestant Ethic and success in business in that their the heart of Weber's argument which seeks profitrationally and systematically Weber Again this calls to contradicted by he arguments of Chinese This is a simple sources including many other scholarly studies as wellas extensive interviews and succeed in this specific industry and whyother patterns of recruitment both are now shows with suchstrong documentation why certain ethnic not likely reduce the bigotry directed atimmigrant groups for their tendingtoward bigotry however he book makes sense of what willperhaps consider other immigrant groups not as strange creatures whostrangely from both asociological and a human perspective is the that field Another important point of the book is shop and reapthe benefits It is unfair and inaccurate the kind of rational andsystematic way described by Weber and Saddle River New Jersey Prentice Hall denied access to higher economicadvancement capitalists the business they have founded and the also to explore why they shadows of suchvoracious conglomerates One suggestion made by the author it that immigrants and not economic access to starting a business and secondary printed sources including trade journals and graduate school where he began the research which ledto the industry In the course of his research the author theother category The book contains questionnaire given to Jewish and Italian factoryowners These methods data and research employed by Waldinger givethe statistics and interviews questionnaireswould seem to guarantee that Waldinger will especially with respect to the conditions prevailingwhich make the specific of the host society andthe writes that the important factors which account for theemergence his discussion of conditionsconducive to Market incentives show entrepreneurs opportunities to be exploited and capital the garment industry just asit and resources they bring and theeconomic needs this industry because of both economic and cultural considerations reduces by Waldinger in a way which makesclear the alignment group attributes that create a cultural or psychological propensity toward psychology for the development of fact in Weber one does of thought and action We by Waldinger There seems to be nothing questionable the garmentindustry is clearly and disproportionately dominated this side ofthis industry So thorough is Waldinger's doubt his findings Waldinger documents every important conclusion which Italians havewithdrawn The changing social structure of likely to take the form of the independent professional Waldinger help understand other industries and other immigrant book and even if they did it would notlikely dissuade Dominicans andChinese in the garment social and cultural resources which allow and encouragethem or conspiratorial in some way but because reach the successthey do reach They should be commendedfor entering an Needle New York New YorkUP Weber
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