Unexceptional Women Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-

Series:

Historical perspectives on business enterprise series.

Historical perspectives on business enterprise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship--New York (State)--Albany--History--19th century.

Entrepreneurship.

Businesswomen--New York (State)--Albany--History--19th century.

Businesswomen.

Self-employed women--New York (State)--Albany--History--19th century.

Self-employed women.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 203 p. :) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-194) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8142-7162-6

OCLC:

899261262

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access