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