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Emily Remus. A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-6749-8727-2, $39.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2019

Jennifer Le Zotte*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina [email protected]

Abstract

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Review
Copyright
Copyright © The Author 2019. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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References

1. Michael Miller, Review of A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown, by Emily Remus (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), Business History Review 93 no. 2 (2019): 426–428.

2. Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999); Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure at Turn-of-the Century New York (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986).

3. Elaine Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).