TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sparks,Edith
TI  - Boss lady: how three women entrepreneurs built successful big businesses in the mid-twentieth century 
T2  - The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, entrepreneurship, and public policy
SN  - 9781469633015 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HD6054.4.U6 S67 2017
U1  - 338.092/520973 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Lewis, Tillie,
KW  - Beech, Olive Ann,
KW  - Rudkin, Margaret.
KW  - Women-owned business enterprises
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women executives
KW  - Biography
KW  - Businesswomen
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index; Constructing entrepreneurial pathways -- Government and women's business ownership -- Labor-management relations -- Gender as brand management -- Women and business valuation: asserting self-worth
N2  - "... 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"--
ER  -