Entrepreneurship and Agency as Lived Experience: A Transnational Biography of Pálína Waage (1864-1935)
Author:   Sigríður Matthíasdóttir
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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9783031710919


Pages:   311
Publication Date:   07 November 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Entrepreneurship and Agency as Lived Experience: A Transnational Biography of Pálína Waage (1864-1935)


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Historical research into female entrepreneurs has become a burgeoning field in recent years. However, there is still a lack of studies of businesswomen based on their personal documents, and such documents seem to be rare. This book, an appraisal of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century East-Icelandic businesswoman Pálína Waage (1864-1935), fills that gap. It investigates the agency of a small-scale female entrepreneur, primarily based on her autobiography, diaries and letters, using the methodology of the history of experience and 'lived experience'.

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Author:   Sigríður Matthíasdóttir
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031710919


ISBN 10:   3031710916
Pages:   311
Publication Date:   07 November 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: A conscious but hidden female entrepreneur.- 2: Approaching the agency of a female entrepreneur.- 3: At the junction between Iceland and Denmark. Family “capital” and transnational ties as a lived experience.- 4: Journeys in a harsh and holistic world.- 5: A young business agent in the making.- 6: Education and agency in transnational spaces.- 7: Living a migration to North America.- 8: The continent of reality.- 9: A single working woman of the world.- 10: A farming – entrepreneurial – woman.- 11: Establishing a business at a transnational border.- 12: The businesswoman Pálína Waage.- 13: Conclusion.

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Sigrídur Matthíasdóttir is an independent scholar based in Iceland.

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