Politics of Consumer Credit in the UK, 1938-1992
Details:
- Author(s) Aveyard, Stuart, Paul Corthorn & Sean O'Connell
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
- Name Comparative international studies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Wide ranging account dealing with the consumer credit market from the 1930s, the various forms of consumer credit', political reactions to the growth of consumer credit, 'the 'related rise of the property owning democracy'; comparisons with the experience of the USA and Europe. Has chapters: 'Consumer credit on the eve of affluence'; 'Building a property owning democracy, 1945-70'; 'A Sisyphean task - credit controls and consumer protection, 1957-64'; 'Crisis and credit control, 1964-71'; ''A supreme example of Whitehall 'tinkering' - the resumption of consumer credit controls, 1971-79'; 'A nation of mortgagors, 1970-89'; 'Truth in lending? Consumer credit and social policy after Crowther'; ''Too much of a good thing' - the liberalization of consumer credit'