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Capital Intentions : Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920.
Late 19th-century San Francisco was a booming marketplace in which 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 wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Luther Hartwell Hodges Series on Business, Society & the State.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Female Proprietors and the Businesses They Started; Chapter 2. Why San Francisco Women Started Businesses; Chapter 3. How Women Started Businesses; Chapter 4. What It Took to Draw Customers; Chapter 5. Women as Financial Managers; Chapter 6. When Women Went Out of Business; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Note on Sources; Appendix 2: Figures and Tables; Figure A1. Percentage of All Gainfully Occupied Women in the Hospitality Industry; Figure A2. Number of San Francisco Female Proprietors in the Hospitality Industry.
- Table A1. Female Proprietors in San Francisco as a Percentage of All Gainfully Occupied WomenTable A2. San Francisco Male and Female Populations; Table A3. Women in the San Francisco Directory Employed in Hospitality; Table A4. Retail Dealers in San Francisco in 1920; Table A5. Race and Nativity of Female Proprietors and of Total San Francisco Female Population, 1890; Table A6. San Francisco Female Proprietors in Types of Businesses as Percentage of All Proprietors from Racial/Ethnic Background, 1890.
- Table A7. San Francisco Female Proprietors in Types of Businesses as Percentage of All Proprietors in Each Category, 1890Table A8. San Francisco Foreign-Born White Female Proprietors by Origin and Type of Business, 1890; Table A9. Race and Nativity of Male Proprietors and of Total San Francisco Male Population, 1890; Table A10. San Francisco Male Proprietors in Types of Businesses as Percentage of All Proprietors in Each Category, 1890; Table A11. San Francisco Foreign-Born White Male Proprietors by Origin and Type of Business, 1890.
- Table A12. Percentage of Women's Businesses Located on Kearny, Montgomery, Second, Third, and Market StreetsTable A13. Business Failure among San Francisco Female Proprietors; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.