| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. By Angel Kwolek-Folland. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xvi, 275 pp. $33.00, isbn 0-8057-4519-X.)

Invited to write a history of women's business experience for a series on the evolution of modern business, Angel Kwolek-Folland, author of a previous book on men and women in the corporate office from 1870 to 1930, began by redefining the concept of business history itself. Stretching her own definition of business as "engaging in economic activity in a market to seek profit and assuming the financial responsibility for that activity," Kwolek-Folland writes about small farmers, prostitutes, factory operatives, movie directors, and professional athletes as well as managers of service and retail firms and heads of manufacturing corporations. 1

In addition to exploring entrepreneurship and management, then, she discusses women's economic roles in the family, the business aspects of their experience in medicine, religion, and other professions, and women as slaves, wage earners, and managers. Such an expansive framework, taking in nearly all the varieties of women's labor, results in a book that might be better classified as a study of women's economic roles. Readers of women's history will already be familiar with what she has to say about slave women, factory operatives, clerical workers, women in the professions, women's education, and policy concerning women. . . .

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