Consumer Culture and Personal Finance

Money Goes to Market

• Author(s): J. Botterill,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 253
• ISBN_10: 0230281184
  ISBN_13: 9780230281189
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Social Science / General , History / Social History , Social Science / Sociology / General , Business & Economics / Finance / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Business & Economics / Economics / General ,

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.