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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.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 203 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Historical perspectives on business enterprise
Historical perspectives on business enterprise series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index.
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.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Entrepreneurship -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century.
Entrepreneurship.
New York (State) -- Albany.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Businesswomen -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century.
Businesswomen.
Self-employed women -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 19th century.
Self-employed women.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9780814271629
0814271626
0814203981 cloth alkaline paper
9780814203989 cloth alkaline paper