Title Money from nothing : indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa / Deborah James.

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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
Contents	Introduction : the wellsprings of consumption and debt in South Africa -- Indebtedness, consumption, and marriage : the new middle class -- Regulating credit : tackling the redistributiveness of neoliberalism -- "Ride the camel" : borrowing and lending in context -- "You don't keep money all the time" : savings clubs and social mobility -- South Africa's credit crunch : narratives and neighborhoods -- "The history of that house keeps you out" : property and the new entrepreneur -- New subjectivities : advice, aspiration, and prosperity.
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Subject	Debt -- South Africa.
	Debt.
	South Africa.
	Consumer credit -- South Africa.
	Consumer credit.
	Social mobility -- South Africa.
	Social mobility.
	Social status -- South Africa.
	Social status.
	Consumption (Economics) -- South Africa.
	Consumption (Economics)
	Black people -- South Africa -- Economic conditions.
	Black people.
	Economic conditions.
	Black people -- South Africa -- Social conditions.
	Social conditions.
	South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1994-
Chronological Term	1994-
	Since 1994
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: James, Deborah, Dr., author. Money from nothing 9780804791113 (DLC) 2014025920 (OCoLC)883207332
ISBN	9780804793155 (electronic book)
	0804793158 (electronic book)
	9780804791113
	0804791112
	9780804792677
	0804792674

Title Money from nothing : indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa / Deborah James.

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