In Hock - Wendy A. Woloson

In Hock

Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression
Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2012
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-90568-6 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Providing the definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, this title demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism.
The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, "In Hock" demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy A. Woloson argues, by regularly pawning household objects to supplement inadequate wages. Nonetheless, businessmen, reformers, and cultural critics claimed that pawnshops promoted vice, and employed anti-Semitic stereotypes to cast their proprietors as greedy and cold-hearted. Using personal correspondence, business records, and other rich archival sources to uncover the truth behind the rhetoric, Woloson brings to life a diverse cast of characters and shows that pawnbrokers were in fact shrewd businessmen, often from humble origins, who possessed sophisticated knowledge of a wide range of goods in various resale markets. A much-needed new look at a misunderstood institution, "In Hock" is both a first-rate academic study of a largely ignored facet of the capitalist economy and a resonant portrait of the economic struggles of generations of Americans.

Wendy A. Woloson is an independent scholar and consulting historian living in Philadelphia. She is the author of Refined Tastes: Sugar, Consumers, and Confectionery in Nineteenth-Century American Culture.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.5.2012
Sprache englisch
Maße 18 x 24 mm
Gewicht 369 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Finanzierung
Betriebswirtschaft / Management Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre Bankbetriebslehre
ISBN-10 0-226-90568-3 / 0226905683
ISBN-13 978-0-226-90568-6 / 9780226905686
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