Women and Their Businesses

Jennifer Aston
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Jennifer Aston: University of Oxford

Chapter 3 in Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England, 2016, pp 53-101 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The recent reassessment of the position of female business owners in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, and new data emerging from the USA, argues that whilst industrialisation may have caused some economic and social changes, it did not necessarily result in women losing the opportunity to inherit, establish, own and operate business enterprises. Data from mid-nineteenth-century Birmingham and London and late nineteenth-century America shows that women continued to own businesses beyond 1850, contradicting the story that by the mid-nineteenth century, the opportunity for women to exercise economic agency had passed and their fate had become inextricably bound to the private, domestic sphere. The data presented in the following chapters will demonstrate that Birmingham and London were in fact only small sections of a much bigger picture, one where women continued to trade throughout the nineteenth century, and use their position as business owners to play an active role in nineteenth-century society.

Keywords: Economic Structure; Business Owner; Late Nineteenth Century; Town Centre; Trade Directory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7_3

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