Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream: Community Social Work Practice and Economic and Social Development

by Melvin Delgado

Book Overview

Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They are also excellent facilitators of community capacity--a major component of effective social work practice. Social work practitioners have a vested interest in seeing such businesses grow, not only among Latinos but all communities of color. Reviewing the latest research on formal and informal economies within urban communities of color, Melvin Delgado...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231150881
• ISBN13: 9780231150880
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher