Author : Kathleen Waters Sander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067037
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Book Synopsis The Business of Charity by : Kathleen Waters Sander
Download or read book The Business of Charity written by Kathleen Waters Sander and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century Woman's Exchanges formed a vast national network that created economic alternatives for financially vulnerable women in a world that permitted few respectable employment options. One of the nation's oldest continuously operating voluntary movements many are still in business after more than a century the Exchanges were fashionable and popular shops where women who had fallen on hard times could sustain themselves by selling their handiwork on consignment without having to seek public employment. Over the century Exchanges became an important forum for entrepreneurial growth and an example of how women used the voluntary sector which had so successfully served as a conduit for their political and social reforms to advance opportunities for economic independence.