Creditworthy : : A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America / / Josh Lauer.
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life-yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are multi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 19 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. "A Bureau for the Promotion of Honesty"
- 2. Coming to Terms with Credit
- 3. Credit Workers Unite
- 4. Running the Credit Gantlet
- 5. "You Are Judged by Your Credit"
- 6. "File Clerk's Paradise"
- 7. Encoding the Consumer
- 8. Database Panic
- 9. From Debts to Data
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index