Consumption and Public Life: Money Goes to Market

Botterill, J.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-01-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230008670

DOI: 10.1057/9780230281189

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 253