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Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England - Engagement in the Urban Economy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England - Engagement in the Urban Economy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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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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