Consumer culture and personal finance : money goes to market
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Consumer culture and personal finance : money goes to market
（Consumption and public life）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index
Summary: "This is an ideal resource for Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the Sociology and Geography of Financial Markets, Consumer Culture, Family Sociology, and Economics (social economy of households)"--Provided by publisher
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the contradictory meanings of home ownership, domesticity, women's consumerism, and banking deregulation that underwrote unprecedented financial crisis and consumer indebtedness.
Table of Contents
Introduction Prudent Investment and Modest Consumption Women, Home, Consumption, Lending and Ill Repute Hire Purchase, Home Furnishings and the Cult of Domesticity Gentlemanly Bankers Adopt a New Set of Manners Big Bang Banking The Press Takes on Personal Debt Three Personal Finance Discourses Personal Financial Identities in Psychology and Popular Literature Conclusion Bibliography
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