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The Building Society Promise - Antoninus Samy

The Building Society Promise

Access, Risk, and Efficiency 1880-1939

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Buch | Hardcover
322 Seiten
2016
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-878780-8 (ISBN)
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Antoninus Samy explores the accessibility of the early building society movement to working-class households before World War II, drawing on extensive archival records to reconstruct the mortgage portfolios of building societies and investigate the kinds of people that were buying houses with the help of building society finance during this period.
The permanent building societies of England grew from humble beginnings as a multitude of small and localized institutions in the nineteenth century to become the dominant players in the house mortgage market by the inter-war period. Throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the movement cultivated an image of being a champion of home ownership for the working classes, but housing historians have questioned whether building societies really lived up to this claim. This study fills a major gap in the historiography of the movement by investigating the class profile of building society members, and how the design of different building societies affected their accessibility, efficiency, and risk-taking practices between 1880 and 1939. These themes are explored using case studies of several building societies from this period and drawing upon extensive archival records.

The Building Society Promise shows that building societies did lend to working-class households before the First and Second World Wars, with some societies showing a greater commitment to working-class home ownership than others. What ultimately affected the outreach of individual societies was the quality of information they possessed, which in turn was largely determined by the types of agency networks they used to find and select borrowers. The phenomenal growth of some of these institutions in the inter-war period, however, and the ensuing competition which emerged between them, brought about profound changes in their firm structure which impaired their ability to reach out to lower-income households as efficiently as before. The findings of this research are relevant to both past and present debates about the optimal design of financial institutions in overcoming social exclusion in credit markets, and the deleterious effects that firm growth, market competition, and managerial self-interest can have on their performance and stability.

Antoninus Samy was born in Australia and educated at the University of Melbourne where he specialised in economics, mathematics, and statistics. Upon graduation, he worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics as an econometrician, before going to the University of Oxford to undertake his doctoral studies in economic history. He was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in 2011, and worked for a year as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ashmolean Museum before he entered religious life as a Dominican friar in the United States. He is currently studying for the Catholic priesthood at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC.

1: The Origins and Evolution of the Building Societies in Britain 1850 - 1939
2: 'Every man his own landlord': Building Societies and Home Owndership 1880-1913
3: 'The Silent Revolution': Building Societies and the Interwar Housing Market
4: 'The Paradox of Success': The Effect of Growth, Competition, and Managerial Self-Interest on Building Society Practice and Market Structure 1880-1939
Conclusion
References
Appendices

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Historical Monographs
Zusatzinfo numerous figures and tables
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 222 mm
Gewicht 484 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Betriebswirtschaft / Management Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre Bankbetriebslehre
ISBN-10 0-19-878780-4 / 0198787804
ISBN-13 978-0-19-878780-8 / 9780198787808
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