Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England : Engagement in the Urban Economy / by Jennifer Aston

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Aston, Jennifer [aut]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Cham ; s.l. : Springer International Publishing, 2016Description: Online-Ressource (XVII, 257 p. 31 illus., 3 illus. in color, online resource)ISBN:

9783319308807

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783319308791 | Druckausg.: 978-3-319-30879-1 | Erscheint auch als: Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century England. Druck-Ausgabe Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xvii, 257 SeitenRVK: RVK: NW 8100 | QF 541LOC classification:

DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7Online resources:

Summary: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Locating Female Business Owners in the Historiography -- Chapter 2: Women and their Businesses -- Chapter 3: Who was the Victorian Businesswoman? -- Chapter 4: The Social Network -- Chapter 5: Life After Death -- Conclusion.Summary: Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society. Sources including trade directories, census returns, probate records, newspapers, advertisements, and photographs are analysed and linked to demonstrate conclusively that women in nineteenth-century England were far more prevalent in business than previously acknowledged. Moreover, women were able to establish and expand their businesses far beyond the scope of inter-generational caretakers in sectors of the economy traditionally viewed as unfeminine, and acquire the assets and possessions that were necessary to secure middle-class status. These women serve as a powerful reminder that the middle-class woman’s retreat from economic activity during the nineteenth-century, so often accepted as axiomatic, was not the case. In fact, women continued to act as autonomous and independent entrepreneurs, and used business ownership as a platform to participate in the economic, philanthropic, and political public sphere.PPN: PPN: 1658671732Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXEF | ZDB-2-ECF

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