Working Class Credit and Community since 1918

AVRAM TAYLOR is Lecturer in History at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle.

• Introduction Credit, Kinship and Community: The Impact of Credit upon Working Class Social Networks 'Taking an Interest in Your Neighbours, or Just Taking an Interest from Your Neighbours? Illegal Moneylending and the Working Class 'The Changing Fortunes of a Petit Bourgeois Chameleon': The Relationship between Small Shopkeepers and Working Class Communities 'Jut Like One of the Family': The Role of the Agent and the Established Firm within Working Class Credit before 1945 'Still One of the Family': The Role of the Agent and the Established Firm within Working Class Credit after 1945 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index