Backstreet capitalism: An analysis of the family firm in the nineteenth-century Sheffield cutlery industry

Tweedale, Geoffrey

doi:10.1080/00076791.2012.744592

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“…Some cities have strong links to specific industries and their local newspaper will chart the development of organisations, managers and the workforce involved in that industry over generations. Sheffield is internationally recognized as a centre for British cutlery manufacturing and its local newspaper, The Star, was a key source in Tweedale's (2013) qualitative analysis of nineteenth-century local family cutlery firms.…”

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Contextual analysis and newspaper archives in management history research

Bowie

2019

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Contextual analysis and newspaper archives in management history research

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2019

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“…She concludes that through their business activities women made a significant contribution to the expansion of the commercial sector in Britain during the second half of the 20th century. Tweedale (2013) explores the development of the cutlery industry in Sheffield/UK during the 19 th century, where the family was largely synonymous with the firm. The author proposes that businesses drew their strength mainly from individual family skills, within the essentially craft-based industry.…”

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Women Entrepreneurship in Family Business

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Welter

2017

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Despite several calls for more systematic research on the role of gender aspects for entrepreneurial family businesses, rather little research on such topics has been published in the leading family business journals. More research has been published in niched or lower-ranked journals as well as books. The aim of this chapter is to provide a systematic literature review of the intersection between gender and family business research published in different kinds of outlets, outlining the status quo of the discussion along different themes as well as a research agenda to help move the field forward.

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“…See, for example, Nenadic, ‘Small family firm’, pp. 94–6; Tweedale, ‘Backstreet capitalism’, p. 883; Davidoff and Hall, Family fortunes , pp. 279–84; Green and Owens, ‘Gentlewomanly capitalism?’, pp.…”

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“…For example, Tweedale, ‘Backstreet capitalism’, p. 884; Kay, Female entrepreneurship , pp. 19–20, 87–91.…”

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Interpreting business partnerships in late Victorian Britain†

Bennett

2016

The Economic History Review

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This article gives the first large‐scale assessment of business partnerships in England and Wales using business records within the population census for 1881. It seeks to understand the variety of ways that ‘partnership’ was used: explicit partnership, ‘de facto’ partnership, ‘joint’ activity, and asset ownership together. The article confirms that partnerships were chiefly between two people. Complexity and transaction costs largely precluded larger size and squeezed the partnership into a ‘middle ground’ between the sole proprietor and the corporation. The main size contrast was between farms with small employee numbers, and larger non‐farm business partnerships. Generally differences in the gender of business owners have greater salience than sectors. Few female business partnerships employed more than four people (mean 3.4), while male partnerships ranged up to several thousand employees (mean 33.6), and 18.6 for mixed gender. While many women were involved in businesses, their opportunities remained restricted, and most were in partnership with male partners. Family structures were important, with three‐quarters of all identifiable partnerships having some form of family relationship, with a strong preponderance of single women in female‐only partnerships, married men in male‐only partnerships, and widows in mixed gender businesses.

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Backstreet capitalism: An analysis of the family firm in the nineteenth-century Sheffield cutlery industry

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Contextual analysis and newspaper archives in management history research

Contextual analysis and newspaper archives in management history research

Women Entrepreneurship in Family Business

Interpreting business partnerships in late Victorian Britain†

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