书目名称 | Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century |
副标题 | A Global Perspective |
编辑 | Jennifer Aston,Catherine Bishop |
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概述 | Innovatively considers nineteenth-century businesswomen from a global perspective, moving beyond European and trans-Atlantic frameworks to include many other corners of the world.Provides a unique and |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Economic History |
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描述 | ."This volume challenges those who see gender inequalities invariably defining and constraining the lives of women. But it also broadens the conversation about the degree to which business is a gender-blind institution, owned and managed by entrepreneurs whose gender identities shape and reflect economic and cultural change." – .Mary A. Yeager., Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles.This is the first book to consider nineteenth-century businesswomen from a global perspective, moving beyond European and trans-Atlantic frameworks to include many other corners of the world. The women in these pages, who made money and business decisions for themselves rather than as employees, ran a wide variety of enterprises, from micro-businesses in the ‘grey market’ to large factories with international reach. They included publicans and farmers, midwives and property developers, milliners and plumbers, pirates and shopkeepers. . .Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective rejects the notion that nineteenth-century women were restricted to the home. Despite a variety of legal and structural restrictions, they found ways to make important but largel |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | Female Entrepreneurs; Female Entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century; Economic History; Feminist eco |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33412-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-33414-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-33412-3Series ISSN 2662-6497 Series E-ISSN 2662-6500 |
issn_series | 2662-6497 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if Applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 |