This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the UK, drawing on the thought of Foucault and Althusser to examine the precariousness caused by a lack of savings and a reliance on debt at a time of reorganisation or rollback of government benefits.
Author Biography
Niamh Mulcahy is Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, UK.
