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

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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