The Politics of Consumer Credit in the UK, 1938-1992
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 September 2018
- ISBN 9780198732235
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 243x165x21 mm
- Weight 564 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 black and white figures 0
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Short description:
This book demonstrates how the UK's consumer credit market has been a distinctive one since the 1930s, outlining the history of various forms of consumer credit and the related rise of the property owning democracy, but also showing the impact this model had on social issues such as class, gender, race, and social equity.
MoreLong description:
As early as the 1930s, Britain had a highly innovative and profitable mortgage sector that promoted a major extension in home ownership. These controversial and risky offerings had an equivalent in numerous hire purchase agreements, with which new homes were furnished. Such developments were forerunners of the 'easy credit' regime more commonly associated with the 1980s. Taking a long-term perspective on this issue indicates that Britain's departure from European models of consumer credit markets was not simply a by-product of neoliberalism's influence on the Thatcher administration, and this book offers a much fuller explanation to the phenomenon. It explores debates within and between the major political parties; reveals the infighting amongst civil service departments over management of consumer demand; charts the varying degrees of influence wielded by the Bank of England and finance capital, as opposed to that of consumer durable manufacturers; reviews the perspectives of consumers and their representatives; and explains the role of contingency and path dependency in these historical events.
The central focus of this book is on consumer credit, but this subject provides a case study through which to explore numerous other important areas of British history. These include debates on the issues of post-war consensus, the impact of rising home ownership and its impact on consumer credit and personal finance markets, the management of consumer society, political responses to affluence, the development of consumer protection policy, and the influence of neoliberalism.
...this is without doubt a weighty and important contribution, not only plugging adeficit in historical knowledge but likely to stimulate further investigation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Consumer credit on the eve of the affluent society
Building a property-owing democracy: 1945-1970
A Sisyphean task: credit controls and consumer protection, 1957-1964
Crisis and credit control, 1964-1971
'A supreme example of Whitehall "tinkering"': the resumption of consumer credit controls, 1971-1979
A nation of mortgagors: 1970-1989
Truth in lending? Consumer credit and social policy after Crowther
'Too much of a good thing': the liberalisation of consumer credit
Conclusion
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