The Business of Charity
The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900
In the nineteenth century Woman's Exchanges formed a vast national network that created economic alternatives for financially vulnerable women in a world that permitted few respectable employment options.One of the nation's oldest continuously operating voluntary movements -- many are still in business after more than a century -- the Exchanges were fashionable and popular shops where women who had fallen on hard times could sustain themselves by selling their handiwork on consignment -- without having to seek public employment. Over the century Exchanges became an important forum for entrepreneurial growth and an example of how women used th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-252-06703-7
- EAN: 9780252067037
- Produktnummer: 1793232
- Verlag: University Of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.6 cm 322 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations
- Gewicht: 322
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