Unexceptional Women : Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 /

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Main Author: Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Unexceptional women : female proprietors in Albany, 1830-85
  • Female microentrepreneurs : linking stories and statistics
  • Doing business : patterns and parameters
  • Micronetworks and the family business economy
  • Business or labor? : blurred boundaries in the careers of self-employed craftswomen
  • "A small but safe business" : gendering success for nineteenth-century female proprietors
  • "Doing the best business of any firm or man in the line" : female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Albany
  • Illicit business : shady tradeswomen in Albany
  • Conclusion : incorporating businesswomen into history.