Bittmann Working for Debt

Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55476-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bittmann, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bittmann Simon:
Simon Bittman is a lecturer in sociology at the College de France. His work has appeared in Sociologie du travail, Genèses, Economie et Statistiques, and Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales.Simon Bittmann is a tenured researcher in sociology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the University of Strasbourg.