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Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables ; Chapter 1: Introduction: Middle-Class Women andßBusiness inßNineteenth-Century Northern France; Notes; Appendix; Mimi Lamour; English translation (author's translation); Chapter 2: Lille and Its Arrondissement in the Nineteenth-Century ; 1 From Guild Production toßProto-industry; 2 Industrialization's Beginnings; 2.1 The Mechanization ofßSpinning; 2.2 Families withßBusinesses; 2.3 Social Stability; 3 The Factory Age; 3.1 The Spread ofßMechanization; 3.2 Emergence ofßtheßFamily Firm; 3.3 Precarious Businesses.
3.4 An Industrial Middle-Class Takes ShapeNotes; Chapter 3: Manufacturers and Merchants in the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century ; 1 Joint Spheres; 1.1 Deputy Husbands andßCaretaking Widows; 1.2 The Firm ofßHusband & Wife; 1.3 And theßFirm ofßBrother & Sister; 2 Disjointed Spheres; 2.1 Leading Wives; 2.2 Partners inßNon-family Firms; 2.3 Independent Widows; 3 And theßNot-So-Interested Widows; 4 How Many?; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Merchants and Manufacturers After 1850 ; 1 Statistics; 2 Traditional Roles: Deputy-Husbands andßContinuing Widows.
3 The Other Side ofßtheßCoin: Independent Women4 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Separating Spheres? ; 1 Partnerships andßtheß Patrimonialization ofßtheßFirm; 2 And Planned Successions; 3 Shareholding Societies; 4 Bright Young Things; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Women in Crafts and Retail ; 1 Roads Less Travelled: Crafts andßHospitality; 2 Retail; 2.1 A Growing Presence; 2.2 Ghettoized andßImmiserated?; 2.3 Retail asßaßFamily Economic Strategy; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Why a Continuing Joint Sphere? ; 1 The Law; 2 Hierarchies ofßGender andßDeputy Husbands.
3 What Were theß"Public" and "Private" Spheres?4 Conservatism; Notes; Chapter 8: Generating Incomes; 1 Case Studies; 2 Investments vs. Income-Generating Properties; 3 Real Estate Ownership: Source ofßRents or Capitalist Investment?; 3.1 The First Cohort: 1830-1833; 3.2 The Second Cohort: 1871-1874; 3.3 Mesdames Vanbrouck andßMulle; Messieux Savarin, Paquet andßGallois; 4 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: Behind the Discursive Veil ; 1 Anti-capitalist "Bourgeois" Discourses; 2 There Is No Defense Like aßGood Offense: Industrialists' Discourses.
2.1 Family Histories: Constructing Paternalist Dynasts2.2 From Dynasties toßCorporatism: Paternalism's Political Dimension; 3 Industrial Father-Mother Dyads; 4 Images vs. Reality: TheßMale Discourse; 5 Images vs. Reality: TheßFemale Discourse; 6 Business History's Recasting theßMotte: FromßVenture Capitalists toßtheß"Motte System"; 7 Post-industrial Images; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix A: Sources and Method ; Qualitative Sources; Quantitative Sources; Town or Trades Directories (TablesßB6, B7, B8 andßB9 inßAppendix B); Censuses.
3.4 An Industrial Middle-Class Takes ShapeNotes; Chapter 3: Manufacturers and Merchants in the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century ; 1 Joint Spheres; 1.1 Deputy Husbands andßCaretaking Widows; 1.2 The Firm ofßHusband & Wife; 1.3 And theßFirm ofßBrother & Sister; 2 Disjointed Spheres; 2.1 Leading Wives; 2.2 Partners inßNon-family Firms; 2.3 Independent Widows; 3 And theßNot-So-Interested Widows; 4 How Many?; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Merchants and Manufacturers After 1850 ; 1 Statistics; 2 Traditional Roles: Deputy-Husbands andßContinuing Widows.
3 The Other Side ofßtheßCoin: Independent Women4 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Separating Spheres? ; 1 Partnerships andßtheß Patrimonialization ofßtheßFirm; 2 And Planned Successions; 3 Shareholding Societies; 4 Bright Young Things; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Women in Crafts and Retail ; 1 Roads Less Travelled: Crafts andßHospitality; 2 Retail; 2.1 A Growing Presence; 2.2 Ghettoized andßImmiserated?; 2.3 Retail asßaßFamily Economic Strategy; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Why a Continuing Joint Sphere? ; 1 The Law; 2 Hierarchies ofßGender andßDeputy Husbands.
3 What Were theß"Public" and "Private" Spheres?4 Conservatism; Notes; Chapter 8: Generating Incomes; 1 Case Studies; 2 Investments vs. Income-Generating Properties; 3 Real Estate Ownership: Source ofßRents or Capitalist Investment?; 3.1 The First Cohort: 1830-1833; 3.2 The Second Cohort: 1871-1874; 3.3 Mesdames Vanbrouck andßMulle; Messieux Savarin, Paquet andßGallois; 4 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: Behind the Discursive Veil ; 1 Anti-capitalist "Bourgeois" Discourses; 2 There Is No Defense Like aßGood Offense: Industrialists' Discourses.
2.1 Family Histories: Constructing Paternalist Dynasts2.2 From Dynasties toßCorporatism: Paternalism's Political Dimension; 3 Industrial Father-Mother Dyads; 4 Images vs. Reality: TheßMale Discourse; 5 Images vs. Reality: TheßFemale Discourse; 6 Business History's Recasting theßMotte: FromßVenture Capitalists toßtheß"Motte System"; 7 Post-industrial Images; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix A: Sources and Method ; Qualitative Sources; Quantitative Sources; Town or Trades Directories (TablesßB6, B7, B8 andßB9 inßAppendix B); Censuses.