Doing Business with Beauty

Doing Business with Beauty

Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy

by Adia Harvey Wingfield

155 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780742561168
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Using in-depth interviews with hair salon owners, Doing Business with Beauty explores several facets of the business of owning a hair salon, including the process of becoming an owner, the dynamics of the owner-employee relationship, and the factors that steer black women to work in the hair industry. Harvey Wingfield examines the black female business owner's struggle for autonomy and success in entrepreneurship.

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