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Author Sparks, Edith, author.

Title Boss lady : how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century / Edith Sparks.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
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Series The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy
Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy.
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth.
Summary " ... 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.
Subject Lewis, Tillie, 1896-1977.
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993.
Rudkin, Margaret.
Beech, Olive Ann, 1903-1993. (OCoLC)fst01956100
Rudkin, Margaret. (OCoLC)fst00346598
Women-owned business enterprises -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women executives -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
Businesswomen -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Businesswomen. (OCoLC)fst00843013
Women executives. (OCoLC)fst01177651
Women-owned business enterprises. (OCoLC)fst01179163
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Sparks, Edith. Boss lady. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469633015 (DLC) 2016050513 (OCoLC)960276813
ISBN 9781469633039 (electronic bk.)
1469633035 (electronic bk.)
9781469633046 (electronic bk.)
1469633043 (electronic bk.)
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