Author: Edith Sparks
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633035
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards. These leaders began their ascent to the highest echelons of the business world before women had widespread access to higher education and before there were federal programs to incentivize women entrepreneurs or laws to prohibit credit discrimination. In telling their stories, Sparks demonstrates how these women at once rejected cultural prescriptions and manipulated them to their advantage, leveraged familial connections, and seized government opportunities, all while advocating for themselves in business environments that were not designed for women, let alone for women leaders. By contextualizing the careers of these hugely successful yet largely forgotten entrepreneurs, Sparks adds a vital dimension to the history of twentieth-century corporate America and provides a powerful lesson on what it took for women to succeed in this male-dominated business world.
Tillie Lewis
Author: Kyle Elizabeth Wood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537372679
Category : Businesswomen
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The life and times of Tillie Lewis, the first female captain of industry in America.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537372679
Category : Businesswomen
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The life and times of Tillie Lewis, the first female captain of industry in America.
Boss Lady
Author: Edith Sparks
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633035
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards. These leaders began their ascent to the highest echelons of the business world before women had widespread access to higher education and before there were federal programs to incentivize women entrepreneurs or laws to prohibit credit discrimination. In telling their stories, Sparks demonstrates how these women at once rejected cultural prescriptions and manipulated them to their advantage, leveraged familial connections, and seized government opportunities, all while advocating for themselves in business environments that were not designed for women, let alone for women leaders. By contextualizing the careers of these hugely successful yet largely forgotten entrepreneurs, Sparks adds a vital dimension to the history of twentieth-century corporate America and provides a powerful lesson on what it took for women to succeed in this male-dominated business world.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633035
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret Rudkin (founder of Pepperidge Farm)--who started their own manufacturing companies in the 1930s, sold them to major corporations in the 1960s and 1970s, and became members of their corporate boards. These leaders began their ascent to the highest echelons of the business world before women had widespread access to higher education and before there were federal programs to incentivize women entrepreneurs or laws to prohibit credit discrimination. In telling their stories, Sparks demonstrates how these women at once rejected cultural prescriptions and manipulated them to their advantage, leveraged familial connections, and seized government opportunities, all while advocating for themselves in business environments that were not designed for women, let alone for women leaders. By contextualizing the careers of these hugely successful yet largely forgotten entrepreneurs, Sparks adds a vital dimension to the history of twentieth-century corporate America and provides a powerful lesson on what it took for women to succeed in this male-dominated business world.
Empty Pleasures
Author: Carolyn de la Peña
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807879673
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create diet products, savvy women's magazine writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened foods as ideal, modern weight-loss aids, and early diet-plan entrepreneurs built menus and fortunes around pleasurable dieting made possible by artificial sweeteners. NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have enjoyed enormous success by promising that Americans, especially women, can "have their cake and eat it too," but Empty Pleasures argues that these "sweet cheats" have fostered troubling and unsustainable eating habits and that the promises of artificial sweeteners are ultimately too good to be true.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807879673
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create diet products, savvy women's magazine writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened foods as ideal, modern weight-loss aids, and early diet-plan entrepreneurs built menus and fortunes around pleasurable dieting made possible by artificial sweeteners. NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have enjoyed enormous success by promising that Americans, especially women, can "have their cake and eat it too," but Empty Pleasures argues that these "sweet cheats" have fostered troubling and unsustainable eating habits and that the promises of artificial sweeteners are ultimately too good to be true.
Customs Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Health and the Environment Miscellaneous
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Notices of Judgement Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ...
Author: United States. Food and Drug Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Sodium in Food and High Blood Pressure
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher:
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Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Customs Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
The Jew in the American World
Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
A translation of the 6th edition (1987, Nauka Press, Moscow) of a textbook which had been extensively revised and augmented as compared with the 2nd edition (1957, Nauka Press, Moscow; translation into English, Pergamon Press, 1966). Material is organized into sections that include, among others, basic operations of the field; the kinematics of a continuous medium; distribution of mass and force in a continuous medium; irrotational motions of an ideal medium; turbulent flows of incompressible viscous fluid; and some numerical methods for solving equations of hydrogas dynamics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
A translation of the 6th edition (1987, Nauka Press, Moscow) of a textbook which had been extensively revised and augmented as compared with the 2nd edition (1957, Nauka Press, Moscow; translation into English, Pergamon Press, 1966). Material is organized into sections that include, among others, basic operations of the field; the kinematics of a continuous medium; distribution of mass and force in a continuous medium; irrotational motions of an ideal medium; turbulent flows of incompressible viscous fluid; and some numerical methods for solving equations of hydrogas dynamics. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR