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Boss lady : how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century / Edith Sparks.
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Sparks, Edith
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English
Published/Created
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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HD6054.4.U6 S67 2017
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Lewis, Tillie 1896-1977
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Beech, Olive Ann 1903-1993
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Rudkin, Margaret
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Women-owned business enterprises
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Women executives
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Biography
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Businesswomen
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Biography
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Series
Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy
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The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy
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" ... The careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-297) and index.
Contents
Constructing entrepreneurial pathways
Government and women's business ownership
Labor-management relations
Gender as brand management
Asserting self-worth.
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ISBN
9781469633015 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1469633019 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9781469633022 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1469633027 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016050513
OCLC
960276813
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