Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen : : Historical case studies of women's changing roles in family businesses / / edited by Draiflessen Collection.

• HerausgeberIn: Draiflessen Collection,
• TeilnehmendeR: Draiflessen Collection,
• Place / Publishing House: Köln, Germany : : Böhlau,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD -- Kai Bosecker and Stefanie van de Kerkhof | INTRODUCTION -- Mechthild Isenmann | WOMEN IN ACTIVE ROLES IN BUSINESSES OF THE FOURTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES -- Hans Peterse | WOMEN IN TEXTILE BUSINESS-OWNING FAMILIES IN TWENTE IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. Separate spheres, influential roles -- Kai Bosecker | WOMEN IN A TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. The example of the Brenninkmeijers -- Sina Bohnen | IN THE BACKGROUND, THE INVISIBLE WOMAN? Women's role(s) and options within family businesses: The example of the K.hler delicatessen, Dortmund, in the early twentieth century -- Mirjam Lober | THE SUCCESSION OF WOMEN TO THE MANAGEMENT OF FAMILY BUSINESSES. The example of Margarethe Krupp and her trusteeship (1902-1906) of the Krupp steel company -- Daniela Gastell | HELENE VIEWEG-BROCKHAUS AND ELSE DÜRR. Two examples of women in family businesses in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German publishing trade -- Swen Steinberg | MOTHER TO THE WORKERS? Gender roles in Christian businesses in the nineteenth and early twentieth century -- Katrin Schreiter and Clara Piacenza | THE ART OF DEVELOPING CULTURAL CAPITAL IN ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE. Gabriele Henkel and the Henkel art collection -- Ulrike Laufer | 'THE PROSPERITY AND HONOUR OF MY HOUSE'. The women of the Hirschland banking family of Essen, Germany -- Stefanie van de Kerkhof | 'WITH ESPRIT AND CONFIDENCE OF FAITH'. How women's roles and functions changed in the Rhenish silk industry. A case study of the Vereinigte Seidenwebereien AG corporation (Verseidag) -- Agnes Arndt | EFFICIENCY AND EMOTION. Paradigms and dynamics around women's emotional labour in family businesses -- AUTHORS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES.