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Author:

Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-

Title:

Unexceptional women : female proprietors in mid-nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xx, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Self-employed women--Albany--Albany--History--19th century.
Businesswomen--Albany--Albany--History--19th century.
Entrepreneurship--Albany--Albany--History--19th century.
Unternehmerin.
Albany <NY>

Notes:

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

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.

Series:

Historical perspectives on business enterprise

ISBN:

9780814203989 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814203981 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)247440660

LCCN:

2008038410

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)