Capital Intentions (eBook)

Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920

Edith Sparks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
352 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-6820-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that combined family concerns with money-making activities. Edith Sparks traces the experiences of these women entrepreneurs, exploring who they were, why they started businesses, how they attracted customers and managed finances, and how they dealt with failure.Using a unique sample of bankruptcy records, credit reports, advertisements, city directories, census reports, and other sources, Sparks argues that women were competitive, economic actors, strategizing how best to capitalize on their skills in the marketplace. Their boardinghouses, restaurants, saloons, beauty shops, laundries, and clothing stores dotted the citys landscape. By the early twentieth century, however, technological advances, new preferences for name-brand goods, and competition from large-scale retailers constricted opportunities for women entrepreneurs at the same time that new opportunities for women with families drew them into other occupations. Sparkss analysis demonstrates that these businesswomen were intimately tied to the fortunes of the city over its first seventy years.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy
• Reihe/Serie: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy
• Zusatzinfo: 13 illus., 2 figs., 13 tables, 1 map, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Bankruptcy • boarding houses • businesswomen • commercial strategy • commercial strategy / • Enterprise • Entrepreneurs • Entrepreneurship • female proprietors • hairdressing salons • lunch kitchen • Millinery • San Francisco • small business owners • women business owners • Women in Business
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-6820-5 / 0807868205
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-6820-1 / 9780807868201