Format:
1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:
9780226832364
Content:
"This book is about why debt relief was a salient political issue for so long and why it then ceased to be one. It is also about the United States' constitutional tradition, and the contradictions it embodies. Tracing the geographic, sectoral, and racial politics of debt relief over time--and examining the roles that social movements, interest groups, and constitutional interpretation played--Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston show how the politics of debt relief has interacted with race and other social hierarchies that have conditioned both state action and debtors' opportunities to mobilize. Although the twentieth and early twenty-first century saw the erosion of debt protection, history reminds us that Americans once mounted large-scale grassroots campaigns for debt relief. These activists made radical claims about economic justice, and they reshaped constitutional law and the American state"--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226832357
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226832371
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Zackin, Emily J., - 1980- The political development of American debt relief Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024 ISBN 9780226832357
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226832371
Language:
English
