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In Hock

Name: In Hock
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226905686
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Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression

Autor: Wendy A. Woloson

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Gr...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Wendy A. Woloson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2012

Pagini

248

EAN

9780226905686

ISBN

0226905683

Enbook ID

04550626

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

374

Dimensiuni

229 x 270 x 14

Descriere completă

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.