The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and Household in London, C. 1800-1870

ISBN-13: 9780415431743 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 202 str.

Kay Alison; Alison C. Kay

Opis

Just as women in business have often been hidden by men, they have often also been hidden by the 'home' and the conceptualisation of separate spheres of public and private agency. This book argues that active business did not exclude women.

Spis treści

List of Figures. List of Tables. Abbreviations. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Separate and Suitable. 2. Barriers and Bridges. 3. Insuring Her Assets. 4. Retailing Respectability. 5. A Household of Enterprise. 6. Property, Home and Business. 7. Historical Female Entrepreneurship. Conclusion. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Alison Kay began her working life as a business journalist and management analyst before embarking on her doctoral research at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, upon which this book is based. She was until recently Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British History at Lancaster University, where she has just taken up an Honorary Research Fellowship. She is also an Associate Lecturer in Economics with The Open University.