Working for Debt Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States |
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| Author:
| Bittmann, Simon |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-20289-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2024 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $57.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.