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Author Shirk, Martha.

Title Kitchen table entrepreneurs : how eleven women escaped poverty and became their own bosses / Martha Shirk, Anna S. Wadia ; preface by Marie C. Wilson and Sara K. Gould ; [with a foreword by Senator John Kerry].

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  HD6072.6.U5 S557 2004x    Available  ---
Description xxiv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note "Change the way the world works. Ms. Foundation for Women."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-312) and index.
Contents Moving up, one hot dog at a time : Sharon and Michelle Garza, Heavenly Dawgs, Denver, Colorado -- An artist with a pastry knife : Jeanette Bradshaw, Elegant Traditions by Jeanette, Whitehall, Arkansas -- "God gave me the knowledge" : Lucille Barnett Washington and Sheela Drummer, F & S Auto Parts, Detroit, Michigan -- "I'm lucky to be alive" : Roselyn Spotted Eagle, Spotted Eagle Enterprises, Kyle, South Dakota -- Chasing the American dream : America Ducasse, America's Family Day Care, Lowell, Massachusetts -- "Making the planet a better place" : Jackie Clark, Moon River Nursery, Albion, California -- Lighting the world : Yasmina Cadiz, Punctilio, Inc., Chicago, Illinois -- God, family, and an electric knitting machine : Ollie Barkley, Ollie's Mountaineer Knits, Hillsboro, West Virginia -- "Life happens" : Danielle Franklin, Danielle's Touch, Oakland, California -- Conclusion : building businesses, changing lives.
Subject Self-employed women -- United States -- Biography.
Self-employed women.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
Businesswomen.
Women-owned business enterprises -- United States -- Case studies.
Women-owned business enterprises.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Entrepreneurship -- United States -- Case studies.
Entrepreneurship.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Case studies.
Added Author Wadia, Anna S.
Added Title Updated with a new epilogue
ISBN 0813342236 paperback