Creditworthy a history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America
Introduction -- "A bureau for the promotion of honesty" : the birth of systematic credit surveillance -- Coming to terms with credit : the nineteenth-century origins of consumer credit surveillance -- Credit workers unite : professionalization and the rise of a national credit infrastructu...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- "A bureau for the promotion of honesty" : the birth of systematic credit surveillance -- Coming to terms with credit : the nineteenth-century origins of consumer credit surveillance -- Credit workers unite : professionalization and the rise of a national credit infrastructure -- Running the credit gauntlet : extracting, ordering, and communicating consumer information -- "You are judged by your credit" : teaching and targeting the consumer -- "File clerk's paradise" : postwar credit reporting on the eve of automation -- Encoding the consumer : the computerization of credit reporting and credit scoring -- Database panic : computerized credit surveillance and its discontents -- From debts to data : credit bureaus in the new information economy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 352 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780231168083 978-0-231-16808-3 |