Entrepreneurship and Agency as Lived Experience - A Transnational Biography of Pálína Waage (1864-1935)

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'.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sigríður Matthíasdóttir
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9783031710889
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3171088-9
• No. of pages: 311
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 21 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: IX, 311 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous