Sallie Westwood - Enterprising Women

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Enterprising Women

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Ethnicity, economy, and gender relations

Edited by
Sallie Westwood and
Parminder Bhachu

Routledge

LONDON AND NEW YORK

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First published in 1988 by
Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

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1988 Routledge

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Enterprising women: Ethnicity, economy, and gender relations
1. Minority womenGreat Britain
Social conditions
I. Westwood, Sallie II. Bhachu, Parminder
305.420941 HQ1593

ISBN 0-203-16864-X Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-28473-9 (OEB Format)

ISBN 0-415-00686-4 (Print Edition)

ISBN 0-415-00687-2 Pbk

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Enterprising women: ethnicity, economy, and gender relations
edited by Sallie Westwood and Parminder Bhachu.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-415-00686-4 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-415-00687-2 Pbk
1. Minority womenEmploymentGreat Britain. 2. Women-owned
business enterprisesGreat Britain. 3. Work and familyGreat
Britain. I. Westwood, Sallie. II. Bhachu, Parminder.
HD6057.5.G7E57 1988
305.48896041dc 19
8732913
CIP

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This book is dedicated to all minority women in Britain, especially those whose lives appear in the pages of this book.

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Sue Baxter is currently completing a doctoral thesis at Aston University (Strategic Management and Policy Studies Division) in Birmingham on the Chinese community in the fast food industry. Previously she has worked on research projects relating to institutional racism in the provision of public housing in the London Borough of Camden, the availability of public services for Birminghams Chinese community, Birmingham Inner City Partnership Programme, single parenthood and racism on public housing estates in Birmingham.

Parminder Bhachu is an urban anthropologist based at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Her doctoral research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University and her post-doctoral project at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick both dealt with the Sikhs in Britain. She is currently directing a project on Parental Perspectives on Schooling. She is the author of Twice Migrants: East African Sikh Settlers in Britain (Tavistock 1985).

Sasha Josephides is a research fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick. Her doctoral research from the London School of Economics and Political Science was on business and religion in Madang, Papua New Guinea. Since being appointed to the Centre in 1983 she has carried out research on Greek Cypriots in London and is currently researching the Indian Workers Associations.

Annie Phizacklea teaches in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. She has researched widely in the field of racism and female migrant labour and is currently completing work on the UK clothing industry. Her publications include, with Robert Miles, Labour and Racism and White Mans Country, and an edited collection, One Way Ticket: Migration and Female Labour (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1985).

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Ann Phoenix is a research officer at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. She is working on a longitudinal study of women who had their first child when they were aged between 16 and 19 years.