Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance: Subject to Terms and Conditions

by Niamh Mulcahy

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367530996
• ISBN13: 9780367530990
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"