Credit and community
Subtitle: working-class debt in the UK since 1880
By: Sean O'Connell.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780199263318
Subjects: Consumer credit -- Great Britain -- History; Debt -- Great Britain -- History; Working class -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Credit on the doorstep : the tallymen; title: The rise of the provident system : check trading; title: Retail capitalism in the parlour : mail order catalogues; title: The moneylender unmasked; title: Doorstep moneylending since the 1950s; title: Formal and informal co-operative credit; title: Renewed hope for mutuality: credit unions; title: Conclusion : easy terms remain elusive.