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2. Coming to Terms with Credit

The Nineteenth- Century Origins of Consumer Credit Surveillance
© 2017 Columbia University Press

© 2017 Columbia University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. “A Bureau for the Promotion of Honesty” 26
  6. 2. Coming to Terms with Credit 51
  7. 3. Credit Workers Unite 78
  8. 4. Running the Credit Gantlet 103
  9. 5. “You Are Judged by Your Credit” 126
  10. 6. “File Clerk’s Paradise” 156
  11. 7. Encoding the Consumer 182
  12. 8. Database Panic 212
  13. 9. From Debts to Data 242
  14. Epilogue 269
  15. Notes 277
  16. Selected Bibliography 323
  17. Index 335
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https://doi.org/10.7312/laue16808-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. “A Bureau for the Promotion of Honesty” 26
  6. 2. Coming to Terms with Credit 51
  7. 3. Credit Workers Unite 78
  8. 4. Running the Credit Gantlet 103
  9. 5. “You Are Judged by Your Credit” 126
  10. 6. “File Clerk’s Paradise” 156
  11. 7. Encoding the Consumer 182
  12. 8. Database Panic 212
  13. 9. From Debts to Data 242
  14. Epilogue 269
  15. Notes 277
  16. Selected Bibliography 323
  17. Index 335
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