Working for debt: banks, loan sharks, and the origins of financial exploitation in the united states
Auteur :
Bittmann, Simon
Éditeur :
Columbia University Press
ISBN :
9780231202893
Date de publication :
6 août 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.