Unexceptional women
Subtitle: female proprietors in mid-nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1830-1885
By: Susan Ingalls Lewis.
Series: Historical perspectives on business enterprise
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780814203989
Subjects: Self-employed women -- New York (State) -- Albany; Businesswomen -- New York (State) -- Albany; Entrepreneurship -- New York (State) -- Albany
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unexceptional women : female proprietors in Albany, 1830-85; title: Female microentrepreneurs : linking stories and statistics; title: Doing business : patterns and parameters; title: Micronetworks and the family business economy; title: Business or labor? : blurred boundaries in the careers of self-employed craftswomen; title: "A small but safe business" : gendering success for nineteenth-century female proprietors; title: "Doing the best business of any firm or man in the line" : female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Albany; title: Illicit business : shady tradeswomen in Albany; title: Conclusion : incorporating businesswomen into history.