Working for Debt. Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States, Paperback/Simon Bittmann

Working for Debt explores how the fight against wage loans divided the American credit market along class, race, and gender lines. Simon Bittmann argues that the moral and political crusades of Progressive Era reformers helped create the exclusionary credit markets that favored white male breadwinners. Publisher: Columbia University Press Author(s): Simon Bittmann Illustration(s): 35 figures Number of pages: 376 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 33 Cover type: Paperback / softback