Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-409) and index.
Hocking the private in public : credit policy, housekeeping, and status, 1750-1840 -- Collateral lending : pulperías and the Monte de Piedad, 1750-1840 -- Collateral living : consumption, anxious liberals, and daily life, 1830-80 -- Brokering interests : casas de empeño and an expanded Monte de Piedad, 1830-75 -- Positivist housekeeping : domesticity, work, and consumer credit, 1880-1910 -- Porfirian paradoxes : profit versus regulation, capital versus welfare -- A material revolution : militancy, policy, and housekeeping, 1911-20.
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Pawning was a common credit mechanism in Mexico City in the 19th century. A two-tiered sector of public and private pawnbrokers provided collateral credit. This book shows how Mexican women depended on credit to run their households since the Bourbon era and how the collateral credit business of pawnbroking developed into a profitable enterprise.
Culture of everyday credit.
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Home economics-- Mexico-- Mexico City-- History.
Pawnbroking-- Government policy-- Mexico-- Mexico City.