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

In: Nineteenth Century Businesswomen

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  • Charlotte Chapelain

    (CLHDPP, Jean Moulin Lyon III University)

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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.

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  • Charlotte Chapelain, 2024. "Introduction: Women and the Industrialization Process—Bringing Female Entrepreneurs Out of the Shadows," Frontiers in Economic History, in: Charlotte Le Chapelain (ed.), Nineteenth Century Businesswomen, chapter 0, pages 1-11, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:frochp:978-3-031-56411-6_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56411-6_1
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