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Bankminded: Banks as Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden

Bankminded: Banks as Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

Business GeneralEconomicsInvesting & Finance

ISBN10: 3031776526
ISBN13: 9783031776526
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 26 2025
Pages: 301
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This open access book explores the history of how banks and banking services have become part of everyday life. Taking welfare state Sweden as its setting, the book identifies key cultural challenges and shows how banks and finance companies made inroads into the workplace, the family, spaces of consumption and the world of social movements while also taking on tasks typically associated with state authorities. Focusing on this 'bankification of everyday life' reveals the historical links between the post-war welfare state and the financialised everyday culture of the late twentieth century. This book will be of interest to scholars of economic and cultural history and sociology, as well as those interested in the history of welfare states and the development of commercial surveillance.

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