The Indebted Society
Credit and Default in the 1980s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11085448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul W Kingston (corresponding author), Janet Ford |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2072570 |
| OpenAlex | W2017703540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
This book is about debt - a situation which affects a large and growing number of people. In Britain alone in 1986 more than 2 million people were sued for debt in the county courts. But debt cannot be understood apart from credit, and the 1980s have seen a substantial increase in the amount of credit available. In The Indebted Society Janet Ford gives both an overview of the contemporary credit and debt society and a discussion of the borrower's experience and management of debt. As well as providing a critical examination of the growth and changing structure of credit provision, describing the social and economic base for such growth, and considering explanations for the emergence of default and contemporary attitudes to debt, she also presents a detailed study of forty households with mortgage arrears, placing these personal histories within the broader structure of a credit and debt society
Business · Economics · Financial system · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
The makings of the debtor
Sociotypes des surendettés
Debt amnesia
The Virtual Debt Factory
Crisis beyond the exceptional
Whatever Happened to the Urban Informal Sector? The Regressive Effect of 'Double Dualism' on the Financial Analysis of Developing Countries
Small Debts and Economic Distress in England and Wales, 1857-1913
Spacing sovereign debt
Spacing sovereign debt
Les jeunes adultes québécois et le crédit
Negative Equity and British Housing in the 1990s
Trickle‐down debt
What has debt got to do with it? The Valuation of Homeownership in the Era of Financialization
Comparing Foreclosure Counseling Policies in the US and UK
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century
Local Exchange Trading Systems in the United Kingdom
Investigating the experience of repossession
Who has negative equity? How house price falls in Britain have hit different groups of home buyers
Home ownership in recession
Monitoring low cost home ownership initiatives
The role of mental accounting in consumer credit decision processes
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |