140: Family Business
Sep 24, 1999
Stories of family businesses, and what happens when the tension of family dynamics collides with the pressure of capitalist market forces.
- Host Ira Glass with Rory Evans, who describes the day her father fired his own mother from their family business, a machine shop called Evans Industries. Some estimates say that 40 to 60 percent of our nation's gross domestic product is created by family businesses, but talking to anyone who works for one of these companies, you end up wondering...how? (5 minutes)


