Working for Debt: Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States

Working for Debt: Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States

Columbia University Press
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Author/Contributor(s): Bittmann, Simon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date: 08/06/2024
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Working for Debt explores how the fight against wage loans divided the American credit market along class, race, and gender lines. Simon Bittmann argues that the moral and political crusades of Progressive Era reformers helped create the exclusionary credit markets that favored white male breadwinners.