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Author:
Sparks, Edith, author.
Title:
Boss lady : how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century / Edith Sparks.
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Lewis, Tillie,--1904-1977.
Beech, Olive Ann,--1903-1993.
Rudkin, Margaret.
Women-owned business enterprises--United States--History--20th century.
Women executives--United States--History--20th century--Biography.
Businesswomen--United States--History--20th century--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth.
Summary:
" ... The careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy
ISBN:
1469633027
9781469633022
1469633019
9781469633015
OCLC:
(OCoLC)960276813
LCCN:
2016050513
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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