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Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England Engagement in the Urban Economy
Başlık:
Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England Engagement in the Urban Economy
ISBN:
9783319308807
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgileri:
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
XVII, 257 p. 31 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
Series:
Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
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.
Abstract:
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.
Dil:
English