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Doing Business in a Pandemic: Agency and Resilience Among US Nonemployer Businesses

In: Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth

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  • Dawn Rivers

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The COVID-19 pandemic struck roughly halfway through the execution of my dissertation research: an investigation of single-person business ownership as an alternative form of work. As the pandemic continued on its course, I was fortunate enough to be able to reconnect with many of my informants to find out how they had weathered the crisis. In this article, I review ethnographically the strategies pursued by some nonemployers to weather the economic storm, including follow-up interviews and the results of a survey of North Carolina nonemployer business owners covering how they had fared during the pandemic. Finally, I close by considering nonemployer resilience as a function of the agency they are able to exercise over the way they work.

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  • Dawn Rivers, 2024. "Doing Business in a Pandemic: Agency and Resilience Among US Nonemployer Businesses," Research in Economic Anthropology, in: Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth, volume 43, pages 81-100, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reanzz:s0190-128120240000043006
    DOI: 10.1108/S0190-128120240000043006
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