Creditworthy : a history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America / Josh Lauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lauer, Josh (Professor of communication), author.

Series:

Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Credit analysis--United States--History.

Credit analysis.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Credit worthy

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction

"A bureau for the promotion of honesty" : the birth of systematic credit surveillance

Coming to terms with credit : the nineteenth-century origins of consumer credit surveillance

Credit workers unite : professionalization and the rise of a national credit infrastructure

Running the credit gauntlet : extracting, ordering, and communicating consumer information

"You are judged by your credit" : teaching and targeting the consumer

"File clerk's paradise" : postwar credit reporting on the eve of automation

Encoding the consumer : the computerization of credit reporting and credit scoring

Database panic : computerized credit surveillance and its discontents

From debts to data : credit bureaus in the new information economy

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lauer, Josh (Professor of communication), author. Creditworthy

ISBN:

9780231168083

023116808X

OCLC:

980857936