Money from nothing
Subtitle: indebtness and aspiration in South Africa
By: Deborah James
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781868146895
Subjects: Debt; Consumer credit; Social mobility; Social status; Consumption (Economics); Blacks; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the wellsprings of consumption and debt in South Africa; title: Indebtness, consumption, and marriage : the new middle class; title: Regulating credit : tackling the redistributiveness of neoliberalism; title: "Ride the camel" : borrowing and lending in context; title: "You don't keep money all the time" : savings clubs and social mobility; title: South Africa's credit crunch : narratives and neighbourhoods; title: "The history of that house keeps you out" : property and the new entrepreneur; title: New subjectivities : advice, aspiration, and prosperity; title: Conclusion.