Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK Since 1880 by Sean O'Connell
English | 22 Jan. 2009 | ISBN: 0199263310 | 318 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Credit and Community examines the history of consumer credit and debt in working class communities. Concentrating on forms of credit that were traditionally very dependent on personal relationships and social networks, such as mail-order catalogues and co-operatives, it demonstrates how community-based arrangements declined as more impersonal forms of borrowing emerged during the twentieth century.