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850197
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Sparks, Edith
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| Title & Author
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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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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, [2017]
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| Series Statement
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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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1 online resource :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1469633035
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: 1469633043
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: 9781469633039
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: 9781469633046
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1469633019
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1469633027
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9781469633015
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9781469633022
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth.
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| Abstract
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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"--
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Beech, Olive Ann,1903-1993.
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Lewis, Tillie,1896-1977.
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Rudkin, Margaret.
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Beech, Olive Ann,1903-1993.
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Lewis, Tillie,1904-1977.
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Rudkin, Margaret.
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Beech, Olive Ann,1903-1993.
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Rudkin, Margaret.
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| Subject
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Businesswomen-- United States-- History-- 20th century, Biography.
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Women executives-- United States-- History-- 20th century, Biography.
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Women-owned business enterprises-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.
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Businesswomen.
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HISTORY-- Modern-- 20th Century.
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Women executives.
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Women-owned business enterprises.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.092/520973
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| LC Classification
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HD6054.4.U6S67 2017eb
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