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 bankingderegulation that underwrote unprecedented financial crisis and consumer indebtedness. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-00867-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 20/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés