Creditworthy
Subtitle: a history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America
By: Josh Lauer
Series: Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism; Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231168083
Subjects: Credit analysis; History
Other titles: Credit worthy
Description: ix, 352 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "A bureau for the promotion of honesty" : the birth of systematic credit surveillance; title: Coming to terms with credit : the nineteenth-century origins of consumer credit surveillance; title: Credit workers unite : professionalization and the rise of a national credit infrastructure; title: Running the credit gauntlet : extracting, ordering, and communicating consumer information; title: "You are judged by your credit" : teaching and targeting the consumer; title: "File clerk's paradise" : postwar credit reporting on the eve of automation; title: Encoding the consumer : the computerization of credit reporting and credit scoring; title: Database panic : computerized credit surveillance and its discontents; title: From debts to data : credit bureaus in the new information economy; title: Epilogue.