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Author:   Charlotte Le Chapelain
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
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9783031564130

ISBN 10:   3031564138
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1. Introduction. Women and the Industrialization Process: Bringing Female Entrepreneurs out of the Shadows.- Chapter 2. Women and Business in Urban Northern Europe.- Chapter 3. Female Factory Owners in the Industry of Moscow, 1840s–1860s.- Chapter 4. The Story of Rosa – The Fall of a Female Entrepreneur in the Nineteenth Century Pest-Buda.- Chapter 5. Doing Contexts. Women in Family Narratives.- Chapter 6. Handelsfrauen: On the Legal Conditions of Women's Commercial Activity in the Long Nineteenth Century in Central Europe.- Chapter 7. The Woman Trader in French Law in the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 8. Self-Employed Women as Small Traders - Manufacturers and Retailers in the City of Bologna in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 9. Filomena Ferrari: From Farmer to Entrepreneur; A Successful Case of Swiss Migration to Italy in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 10. Women, Wealth, and Business (Milan, Nineteenth Century).- Chapter 11. Noblewomen, business and financial management in nineteenth-century France.- Chapter 12. A Female Competitor to the Miners of the Pyrenees: How Did Her Rivals View Claudine Le Breton-Pignal?.- Chapter 13. Myths and Biases: An Exploration of Women’s Historical Patenting Activities.

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Charlotte Le Chapelain is Professor of Economics at Jean Moulin Lyon III University, France and member of the Centre Lyonnais d’Histoire du Droit et de la Pensée Politique (CHLDPP). She is an associate member of the Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA). She holds a PhD and a Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in economics from the University of Strasbourg, France. Le Chapelain's research interests lie in the fields of cliometrics, economic history, history of economic thought, and business history with a focus in human capital, education, industrialization, economic growth, female entrepreneuship.

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