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Unexceptional Women

Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-

Unexceptional Women Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / [electronic resource] : Susan Ingalls Lewis. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. - 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.

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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

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