Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century England : engagement in the urban economy
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Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century England : engagement in the urban economy
(Palgrave studies in economic history)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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Note
Bibliography: p. 231-247
Includes index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
IntroductionChapter 1: Locating Female Business Owners in the HistoriographyChapter 2: Women and their BusinessesChapter 3: Who was the Victorian Businesswoman?Chapter 4: The Social NetworkChapter 5: Life After DeathConclusion
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