Women, business and finance in nineteenth-century Europe : rethinking separate spheres / edited by Robert Beachy, Beatrice Craig and Alastair Owens.
"International contributors take a new look at women's roles in finance and investment, family-owned businesses, retailing, service activities, and the artisanal trades. They reveal that elite and middle-class women often manipulated financial resources in a highly sophisticated manner. Fa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Berg,
2006.
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| Edition: | English ed. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "International contributors take a new look at women's roles in finance and investment, family-owned businesses, retailing, service activities, and the artisanal trades. They reveal that elite and middle-class women often manipulated financial resources in a highly sophisticated manner. Family-owned businesses and retail trade geared to women, such as grocery and fashion, also offered women opportunities. Throughout, the book considers the impact of industrialization on women's economic agency and examines women in the accommodation business in London, female entrepreneurs in Italy, prostitutes in Germany, family businesses in Sweden, women in publishing in Spain and much more."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 244 p. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845201852 (pbk.) 184520185X (pbk.) 9781845201845 (cloth) 1845201841 (cloth) |