TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aston,Jennifer
TI  - Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century England: engagement in the urban economy 
T2  - Palgrave studies in economic history
SN  - 9783319308807
AV  - HD6072 .F463 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - [Cham]
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Women-owned business enterprises
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Businesswomen
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economic History
KW  - Institutional/Evolutionary Economics
KW  - Industrial Organization
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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