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Capital Intentions - Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920 (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,121
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Capital Intentions - Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920 (Paperback, New edition): Edith Sparks

Capital Intentions - Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920 (Paperback, New edition)

Edith Sparks

Series: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

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Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, recovery from the earthquake, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities. Edith Sparks traces the experiences of these women entrepreneurs, exploring who they were, why they started businesses, how they attracted customers and managed finances, and how they dealt with failure. Using a unique sample of bankruptcy records, credit reports, advertisements, city directories, census reports, and other sources, Sparks argues that women were competitive, economic actors, strategizing how best to capitalize on their skills in the marketplace. Their boardinghouses, restaurants, saloons, beauty shops, laundries, and clothing stores dotted the city's landscape. By the early twentieth century, however, technological advances, new preferences for name-brand goods, and competition from large-scale retailers constricted opportunities for women entrepreneurs at the same time that new opportunities for women with families drew them into other occupations. Sparks's analysis demonstrates that these businesswomen were intimately tied to the fortunes of the city over its first seventy years.

General

Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Release date: November 2006
First published: November 2006
Authors: Edith Sparks
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5775-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Entrepreneurship
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 0-8078-5775-0
Barcode: 9780807857755

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