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Female Enterprise Behind the Discursive Veil in Nineteenth-Century Northern France
Beatrice Craig
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Hardback. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers. Lille and the surrounding towns were then dominated by big and small family businesses, and many were run by women. Those women did not withdraw into the parlour as the century progressed and the `separate ideology' spread. Neither did they become mere figure heads - most were business persons in their own rights. Yet, they have left almost no traces in the collective memory, and historians assume they ceased to exist. This book therefore seeks to answer ... Read more
This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers. Lille and the surrounding towns were then dominated by big and small family businesses, and many were run by women. Those women did not withdraw into the parlour as the century progressed and the `separate ideology' spread. Neither did they become mere figure heads - most were business persons in their own rights. Yet, they have left almost no traces in the collective memory, and historians assume they ceased to exist. This book therefore seeks to answer ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137574121
SKU
V9781137574121
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99-15
About Beatrice Craig
Beatrice Craig is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Women and Business since 1500: Invisible Presences in Europe and North America? (2015) and co-editor with R. Beachy and A. Owens of Women, Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres (2006).
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