Consumer credit in the United States
Subtitle: a sociological perspective from the 19th century to the present
By: Donncha Marron.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Consumer credit -- Social aspects -- United States; Consumer credit -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fishing for sharks and governing small loans; title: Consuming by instalments : the rise of retail credit; title: Assembling the automobile, reassembling thrift; title: Mass credit, mass society and their discontents; title: Plastic credit, plastic lifestyles; title: Credit reporting and consumer surveillance; title: Risk and technologies of credit scoring; title: Borrowing on the fringe : the fate of the risky; title: Risk, identity and the consumer; title: See how lenders see you; title: Securing the self; title: Conclusion : taking life.