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Author Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-

Title Unexceptional Women : Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis

Publication Info Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2009
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
©2009



Description 1 online resource (203 pages): ill
Content text
Media computer
Carrier online resource
Series Historical perspectives on business enterprise
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access star
Subject Self-employed women.
Entrepreneurship.
Businesswomen.
Topical Subject Self-employed women -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century
Businesswomen -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century
Entrepreneurship -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century
Geographic Subject New York (State) -- Albany.
Genre History.
Electronic books.
Contents 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
Other Author Project Muse. distributor
Alternate Title WNCLN MUSE Open Access Ebooks
Other Series Book collections on Project MUSE