Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-class Credit - Hardcover
Fascinating survey. Some illustrations.235pp.
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- PublisherLeicester University Press
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 071851212X
- ISBN 13 9780718512125
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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MAKING ENDS MEET: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit
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Leicester University Press, Leicester
(1983)
ISBN 10: 071851212X
ISBN 13: 9780718512125
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in orange cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Melanie Tebbutt is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her publications include Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain; Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years; People, Places and identities; Women's Talk? A Social History of 'Gossip' in Working-Class Neighbourhoods and this book 'Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit. Credit and the pawnbroker became familiar scapegoats for the evils of industrialization and the demoralization of the working class of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Acceptance of pledging as a way of life encouraged the belief that there was little need to interfere in the credit process, except to control the worst cases of exploitation. Ref QQQ 2. Seller Inventory # 032272
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