Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-210) and index.
Contents:
Part I. The early modern world, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Context -- Common people : the crafts -- Retailers : street sellers, market stall holders and shopkeepers -- Interregional and international trade and banking -- Printers and manufacturers -- The North American (British and French) colonies -- Part II. The modern world, nineteenth to twenty-first centuries -- Context -- More of the same : lower middle-class women in the English speaking world -- Women and small businesses in continental Europe -- Women and large businesses : successors and heiresses -- Women and large businesses : founders and co-founders -- Female investors and bankers, seventeenth to twentieth centuries -- Post-1960s entrepreneurship : a new (American) female frontier? Conclusion : women in business: an enduring presence.
Summary:
"This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, it identifies the economic, social, legal and cultural factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation in business. It pays particular attention to the ways in which gender norms, and their evolution, shaped not only those women's experience of business, but the ways they were perceived by contemporaries, documented in sources and, partly as a consequence, viewed by historians"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.