Название: Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England: Engagement in the Urban Economy
Автор: Aston J.
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Жанр: Экономика
Год издания: 2016
Страниц: 269
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 8 Мб

"Женское предпринимательство в Англии девятнадцатого века: Дело в городском хозяйстве" Дженнифер Астон (издание на английском языке).

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.