Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy - Couverture rigide

Foohey, Pamela; Lawless, Robert M.; Thorne, Deborah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520394143 ISBN 13 : 9780520394148

Editeur : University of California Press, 2025

Synopsis

Debt's Grip tells the story of financial struggle in the United States. Drawing on original data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a landmark long-term study, the authors use the words of bankruptcy filers themselves to shed light on their battles to keep their homes and their cars, pay for healthcare and higher education, care for their children, find adequate employment, retire, negotiate with debt collectors, and confront discrimination in lending. Laying bare the consequences of risk privatization, this book makes a powerful case for why the United States must confront the structural inequities that cause so many--especially Black families, women, and the elderly--to struggle in today's economy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pamela Foohey is the Allen Post Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. Robert M. Lawless is the Max L. Rowe Professor of Law at the University of Illinois. Deborah Thorne is Professor of Sociology at the University of Idaho.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520394143
• ISBN 13: 9780520394148
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 308
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• Personne responsable: non disponible