The Politics of Consumer Credit in the UK, 1938-1992

Author:   Stuart Aveyard (Senior Lecturer in British/Irish History & Politics, Senior Lecturer in British/Irish History & Politics, Queen's University Belfast) ,  Paul Corthorn (Senior Lecturer in History, Senior Lecturer in History, Queen's University Belfast) ,  Sean O'Connell (Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History, Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History, Queen's University Belfast)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198732235


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   13 September 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stuart Aveyard (Senior Lecturer in British/Irish History & Politics, Senior Lecturer in British/Irish History & Politics, Queen's University Belfast) ,  Paul Corthorn (Senior Lecturer in History, Senior Lecturer in History, Queen's University Belfast) ,  Sean O'Connell (Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History, Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History, Queen's University Belfast)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9780198732235


ISBN 10:   0198732236
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   13 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Introduction 1: Consumer credit on the eve of the affluent society 2: Building a property-owing democracy: 1945-1970 3: A Sisyphean task: credit controls and consumer protection, 1957-1964 4: Crisis and credit control, 1964-1971 5: 'A supreme example of Whitehall ""tinkering""': the resumption of consumer credit controls, 1971-1979 6: A nation of mortgagors: 1970-1989 7: Truth in lending? Consumer credit and social policy after Crowther 8: 'Too much of a good thing': the liberalisation of consumer credit Conclusion Bibliography"

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...this is without doubt a weighty and important contribution, not only plugging adeficit in historical knowledge but likely to stimulate further investigation. * Lawrence Black, Journal of Modern History *


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Stuart C. Aveyard is Senior Lecturer in British and Irish History and Politics in the Department of History and Politics at Queen's University Belfast. Stuart completed his doctorate at QUB, where he was also research fellow and lecturer in modern British history before holding an Irish Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship at University College Dublin and a teaching fellowship at King's College London. His first book, No Solution: the Labour government and the Northern Ireland conflict 1974-79, was published with Manchester University Press in 2016. Paul Corthorn studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Durham. Before coming to Queen's in 2006, he held lectureships at Anglia Ruskin, Liverpool, and Oxford Universities. He is joint editor of the Labour History Review and an Associate of the Cold War Studies Programme at the London School of Economics. In 2009 he won a QUB 'Rising Stars' Teaching Award. In 2012 he was a By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. In 2015 he organised an international conference at Queen's on 'Socialism and the Cold War in Western Europe'. Sean O'Connell is Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests have focused on consumer credit, working class communities, gender history, and oral history. His next monograph is a study of the history of joyriding. Sean is editor of Oral History amongst his administrative roles.

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