Title Unexceptional women : female proprietors in mid-nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 203 pages) : illustrations Series Historical perspectives on business enterprise Historical perspectives on business enterprise series. Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index Notes Print version record Subject Entrepreneurship -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century Businesswomen -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century Self-employed women -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century Businesswomen Entrepreneurship Self-employed women New York (State) -- Albany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2008038410 ISBN 9780814271629 0814271626

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