Abstract
This chapter uses a variety of sources in order to investigate the structure and nature of women contribution over the first quarter century of the new republic. These sources include trade directories, the main source providing the quantitative framework for the chapter, supplemented by merchants' accounts, newspapers, bank records, tax records, and Pennsylvania Court of Quarter Sessions records. The trade directories are a source which recorded women by their occupations rather than with regard to their relationship with men, and allow the charting of clear trends in the changing economic activities of women in Philadelphia. The chapter concentrates on the economic activities of white adult single women in early-national Philadelphia. It outlines the main categories of women's work and also considers to a lesser extent work that is less well recorded. Keywords:early-national Philadelphia; economic activities; Philadelphian women; women's work
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