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Record Nr.

UNINA9910903798303321

Autore

Sigríður Matthíasdóttir

Titolo

Entrepreneurship and Agency as Lived Experience : A Transnational Biography of Pálína Waage (1864-1935) / / by Sigríður Matthíasdóttir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031710896

9783031710889

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience, , 2524-8979

Disciplina

305.309

Soggetti

Women - History

Historiography

History - Methodology

Social history

World history

Women's History / History of Gender

Historiography and Method

Social History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1: A conscious but hidden female entrepreneur -- 2: Approaching the agency of a female entrepreneur -- 3: At the junction between Iceland and Denmark. Family “capital” and transnational ties as a lived experience -- 4: Journeys in a harsh and holistic world -- 5: A young business agent in the making -- 6: Education and agency in transnational spaces -- 7: Living a migration to North America -- 8: The continent of reality -- 9: A single working woman of the world -- 10: A farming – entrepreneurial – woman -- 11: Establishing a business at a transnational border -- 12: The businesswoman Pálína Waage -- 13: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Historical research into female entrepreneurs has become a burgeoning field in recent years. However, there is still a lack of studies of businesswomen based on their personal documents, and such



documents seem to be rare. This book, an appraisal of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century East-Icelandic businesswoman Pálína Waage (1864-1935), fills that gap. It investigates the agency of a small-scale female entrepreneur, primarily based on her autobiography, diaries and letters, using the methodology of the history of experience and 'lived experience'. Sigrídur Matthíasdóttir is an independent scholar based in Iceland.