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Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England : Engagement in the Urban Economy / by Jennifer Aston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aston, Jennifer, Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Economic History, 2662-6500
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history.
- Evolutionary economics.
- Institutional economics.
- Industrial organization.
- Entrepreneurship.
- New business enterprises.
- Economic History.
- Institutional and Evolutionary Economics.
- Industrial Organization.
- Local Subjects:
- Economic History.
- Institutional and Evolutionary Economics.
- Industrial Organization.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Summary:
- Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society. Sources including trade directories, census returns, probate records, newspapers, advertisements, and photographs are analysed and linked to demonstrate conclusively that women in nineteenth-century England were far more prevalent in business than previously acknowledged. Moreover, women were able to establish and expand their businesses far beyond the scope of inter-generational caretakers in sectors of the economy traditionally viewed as unfeminine, and acquire the assets and possessions that were necessary to secure middle-class status. These women serve as a powerful reminder that the middle-class woman's retreat from economic activity during the nineteenth-century, so often accepted as axiomatic, was not the case. In fact, women continued to act as autonomous and independent entrepreneurs, and used business ownership as a platform to participate in the economic, philanthropic, and political public sphere.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Locating Female Business Owners in the Historiography
- Chapter 2: Women and their Businesses
- Chapter 3: Who was the Victorian Businesswoman?
- Chapter 4: The Social Network
- Chapter 5: Life After Death
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319308807
- 3319308807
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