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.
| ISBN: | 9780230008670 |
| Publication date: | 20th January 2010 |
| Author: | Jackie Botterill |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 253 pages |
| Series: | Consumption and Public Life |
| Genres: |
Sociology Cultural studies Social and cultural history Finance and the finance industry |