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Auteur(s) : Woloson, Wendy A. (1964-....)
Titre(s) : In hock [Texte imprimé] : pawning in America from independence through the Great Depression / Wendy A. Woloson
Publication : Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009
Description matérielle : xiii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : In hock ; The "Jew broker" in American culture ; In defense of pawnbrokers ; The
economies of everyday life ; Pawnbroking and criminal activity ; Loan societies
and the legitimation of pawnbroking ; Unredeemed.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding
through the Great Depression, this volume demonstrates that the practice was inextricably
intertwined with the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor begotten by this
economic tide could make ends meet, Wendy Woloson argues, only by regularly visiting
pawnshops to supplement their inadequate wages. Nonetheless, businessmen, reformers,
and cultural critics berated the shops for promoting vice and used anti-Semitic stereotypes
to cast their proprietors as greedy and cold-hearted. Parsing and subverting these
caricatures, Woloson shows that pawnbrokers were in fact shrewd businessmen, often
from humble origins, who honed sophisticated knowledge of a wide range of goods and
their values in different markets
Sujet(s) : Prêts sur gages -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226905679 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0226905675 (cloth) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb424235615
Notice n° :
FRBNF42423561
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