Unexceptional Women [electronic resource] : Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis.
Material type: TextSeries: Historical perspectives on business enterprise series | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xx, 203 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814271629
- 0814271626
- 338.09747/4308209034 22
- HD6072.6.U52 A43 2009
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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