Unexceptional Women
Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-
Unexceptional Women Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis. - 1 online resource (xx, 203 p.) : ill. ; - Historical perspectives on business enterprise . - Historical perspectives on business enterprise series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-194) and index.
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.
Open Access
9780814271629 0814271626
Entrepreneurship--History--New York (State)--Albany--19th century.
Businesswomen--History--New York (State)--Albany--19th century.
Self-employed women--History--New York (State)--Albany--19th century.
Electronic books.
HD6072.6.U52 / A43 2009
338.09747/4308209034
Unexceptional Women Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis. - 1 online resource (xx, 203 p.) : ill. ; - Historical perspectives on business enterprise . - Historical perspectives on business enterprise series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-194) and index.
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.
Open Access
9780814271629 0814271626
Entrepreneurship--History--New York (State)--Albany--19th century.
Businesswomen--History--New York (State)--Albany--19th century.
Self-employed women--History--New York (State)--Albany--19th century.
Electronic books.
HD6072.6.U52 / A43 2009
338.09747/4308209034