Simon Bittmann

Working for Debt

Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Working for Debt explores how the fight against wage loans divided the American credit market along class, race, and gender lines. Simon Bittmann argues that the moral and political crusades of Progressive Era reformers helped create the exclusionary credit markets that favored white male breadwinners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231202886
• ISBN-10: 0231202881
• Artikelnr.: 70205839

Autorenporträt

Simon Bittmann

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Exploitation
1. The Time of Credit: Debt and Social Stratification in Illinois,
1900-1917
2. A Racial Economy of Obligation: Credit, Work, and Justice in the
Industrial South, 1900-1920
Part II: Regulation
3. Financial Slavery: Crusading for Markets in Georgia, New York, and
Illinois
4. The Plight of the White Breadwinner: Money, Morals, and Welfare in the
Progressive Era
5. White Loans, Black Sales: Fighting Georgia Salary Buyers, 1924-1931
Part III: Segmentation
6. From Usury to Consumer Credit: The Shame of Kentucky, 1928-1934
7. Leading the Middle Class Out of the Depression: Personal Finance in the
1930s
8. Is Banking Moneylending? Capital, Community, and Exclusion in the New
Deal
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix to Chapter 1: The Classification of Loan Justifications
Notes
Bibliography
Index