Capital intentions : female proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920 / Edith Sparks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparks, Edith.

Series:

Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state.

The Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businesswomen--California--San Francisco--History.

Businesswomen.

Women-owned business enterprises--California--San Francisco--History.

Women-owned business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Late 19th-century San Francisco was a booming marketplace in which some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities. Edith Sparks traces the experiences of these women entrepreneurs, exploring who they were, why they started businesses, how they attracted customers and managed finances, and how they dealt with failure. Using a unique sample of bankruptcy records, credit reports, advertisements, city directories, census reports, and other sources, Sparks argues that women were competitive, e

Contents:

Female proprietors and the businesses they started

Why San Francisco women started businesses

How women started businesses

What it took to draw customers

Women as financial managers

When women went out of business.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-311) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908789-0-8

1-4696-0247-4

0-8078-6820-5

OCLC:

769344371