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Working for Debt: Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States Simon Bittmann
Working for Debt: Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States
Simon Bittmann
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.
360 pages, 35 figures
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 6, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231202893 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 234 × 157 × 33 mm · 582 g |