Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century England : engagement in the urban economy

• 作者： Aston, Jennifer, author.
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• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave studies in economic history.
• 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in economic history
• 主題： Women-owned business enterprises--England--History--19th century. , Businesswomen--Englandx--19th century. , Great Britain--Economic conditions--History--19th century. , Economics. , Economic History. , Institutional/Evolutionary Economics. , Industrial Organization. , Entrepreneurship.
• ISBN： 9783319308807 (electronic bk.) 、 9783319308791 (paper)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: 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.
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• 摘要註: 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.
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