TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulcahy,Niamh
TI  - Class and inequality in the time of finance: subject to terms and conditions 
T2  - Routledge advances in sociology
SN  - 9780367531010
U1  - 339.4/60941 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Low-income consumers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Loans, Personal
KW  - Financial institutions
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Social stratification
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N2  - "This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the UK, 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 Foucault's theory of subjectivation as well as Louis Althusser's interest in class, actively theorising the constraints of low income or precarious work on financial planning, alongside the reorganisation or rollback of government benefits. A contribution to our understanding of the ways in which financial concerns deepen and expand economic inequality, Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance shows how finance stratifies individual subjects rather than simply individualising and separating them. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in neoliberalism, economic austerity and consumer credit and debt"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003080428
ER  -