The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America by Platt, Daniel

The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America

A history of the struggle for debtors' rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression What...
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Author: Daniel Platt
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The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America by Platt, Daniel

The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America

$135.90

The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America

$135.90
Author: Daniel Platt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A history of the struggle for debtors' rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression

What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and cannot repay? What do the victims of misfortune owe to their lenders, and what can they keep for themselves? The answers to those questions, immensely important for debtors, creditors, and society at large, have changed over time. The Price of Misfortune examines the cause of debtors' rights in the modern United States and the struggles of reformers who fought to establish financial freedoms in law.

Daniel Platt shows how, in the wake of the Civil War, a range of advocates drew potent analogies between slavery, imprisonment for debt, and the experiences of wage garnishment and property foreclosure. He traces the ways those analogies were used to campaign for bold new protections for debtors, keeping them secure in their labor, property, and personhood. Yet, as Platt demonstrates, those reforms tended to assume as their ideal borrower someone who was white, propertied, and male. In subsequent decades, the emancipatory promise of debtors' rights would be tested as women, wage earners, and African Americans seized on their language to challenge other structural inequalities: the dependency of marriage, the exploitation of industrial capitalism, and the oppression of Jim Crow. By reconstructing these forgotten developments--and recovering the experiences of indebted farmwives, sharecroppers, and wage workers--The Price of Misfortune narrates a new history of inequality, coercion, and law amid the early financialization of American capitalism.


Author: Daniel Platt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/25/2023
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780226733982

About the Author
Daniel Platt is an assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Illinois Springfield.

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