The Indebted Society
Subtitle: Credit and Default in the 1980s
By: Janet Ford
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780203990193
Subjects: Sociology
Description: "This book is about debt - a situation which affects a large and growing number of people. In Britain alone in 1986 more than 2 million people were sued for debt in the county courts. But debt cannot be understood apart from credit, and the 1980s have seen a substantial increase in the amount of credit available. In The Indebted Society Janet Ford gives both an overview of the contemporary credit and debt society and a discussion of the borrower's experience and management of debt. As well as providing a critical examination of the growth and changing structure of credit provision, describing the social and economic base for such growth, and considering explanations for the emergence of default and contemporary attitudes to debt, she also presents a detailed study of forty households with mortgage arrears, placing these personal histories within the broader structure of a credit and debt society."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, Part I; title: chapter 1 Credit, debt, and default: an overview; title: chapter 2 Credit; title: chapter 3 Running into trouble?; title: part, Part II; title: chapter 4 A study of default; title: chapter 5 The environment of owning; title: chapter 6 Routes into mortgage arrears; title: chapter 7 Experiencing and managing arrears: the borrower's perspective; title: chapter 8 Managing arrears: the impact of creditors; title: chapter 9 Personal lives and social processes: the impact of credit and default.