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The Entrepreneurial Family Economy: Family Strategies and Self-Employment in Detroit, 1880

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Using data from the 1880 manuscript census, city directories, and R. G. Dun and Company credit reports for Detroit, Michigan, this study examines the family economy of entrepreneurial households. Two family work strategies are examined for a sample of 1,881 male self-employed and wage-earning household heads: family enterprise, and the joint labor force participation of family members. The family organization of business is related to high occupational status and wealth among the self-employed. The joint labor force participation of multiple family members is most characteristic of unskilled wage earners in comparison to other occupational strata. Modes of entrepreneurial family economy reflect the middle-class status of the self-employed and their social and economic homogeneity relative to wage earners.

Journal of Family History, Vol. 15, No. 1, 261-283 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/036319909001500115


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