Format:
xiii, 233 pages.
Series Statement:
American Government and Politics
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:
Preface: The mortgage mill grinds on -- Introduction: Bankruptcy is not a crime -- Debt relief and the states in times of crisis -- Federal bankruptcy law: from punishment to protection -- Reconstruction and the meaning of freedom -- Bankruptcy law as American statebuilding: the Act of 1898 -- A tale of two bankruptcies: protective and punitive bankruptcy law in the New Deal -- The missing movement: consumer debtors and their advocates in the twentieth century -- Creditor coordination and the erosion of debt relief -- Conclusion: debtor politics in the twenty-first century
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
Language:
English
Keywords:
Schuldenerlass
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Soziale Bewegung
;
Aktivismus
