1st Edition
Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance Subject to Terms and Conditions
By Niamh Mulcahy
Copyright 2022
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt. Asking what it means for poorer working individuals and households to be subject to the demands of finance, the author draws on Michel... Read more
1. Introduction: Indebted Investors as Subjects of Finance
2. Althusser and Foucault: Subjectivity Stratified
3. The Political Economy of Financial Subjectivity: Structures and Subjects
4. ‘The Spirit of Entrepreneurship’: Discourse and Strategy in the Policy of Margaret Thatcher
5. The Struggles of Saving and Borrowing, and the Question of Class
6. The Uneven and Contradictory Nature of Financial Subjectivity
7. Conclusion
Biography
Niamh Mulcahy is Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, UK.
