Introduction: Women and the Industrialization Process—Bringing Female Entrepreneurs Out of the Shadows

Charlotte Chapelain ()
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Charlotte Chapelain: CLHDPP, Jean Moulin Lyon III University

Chapter Chapter 1 in Nineteenth Century Businesswomen, 2024, pp 1-11 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Women’s involvement in the economy in the past has mainly been analysed through the single prism of women salaried workers. Women’s economic participation outside wage employment still remains a blind spot; yet an understanding of it is essential to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s economic role in the long run. Economic and business history has long remained silent on women’s involvement in the nineteenth-century economic and business spheres as independent workers, entrepreneurs, and investors. Nineteenth-century businesswomen have thus disappeared from collective memory. A growing body of literature is now challenging the long-held view that women withdrew from the business world with the rise of industrialization. But achieving a wider understanding of nineteenth-century women’s presence in business activities will be a long process, and it is this process to which the present book contributes.

Keywords: Women entrepreneurs; Economic history; Nineteenth century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56411-6_1

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