'Petty pawns and informal lending. Gender and the transformation of small scale credit in England, circa 1600-1800' in K Bruland & P O'Brien (eds), From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias

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Author(s) Lemire, Beverly
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1998
Pages pp112-38
Publisher Clarendon Press
Place Published Oxford

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Name Finance of production & trade
Name Micro-scale businesses

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Explores the neglected area of credit provision to the lower social ranks, notably women as well as men, whether wage earners or petty craftspersons / pedlars - 'this study begins the exploration of commercial practices common in metropolitan side-streets among formal and informal pawnbrokers, moneylenders, and their clents'. Has sections: 'Community and credit'; 'Credit networks and gender'; 'Lending, borrowing and the regulation of credit'