Political Development of American Debt Relief, Paperback by Zackin, Emily; Th...

Political Development of American Debt Relief, Paperback by Zackin, Emily; Thurston, Chloe N., ISBN 0226832376, ISBN-13 9780226832371, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US"This book is about why debt relief was a salient political issue for so long and why it then ceased to be one. It is also about the United States' constitutional tradition, and the contradictions it embodies. Tracing the geographic, sectoral, and racialpolitics of debt relief over time--and examining the roles that social movements, interest groups, and constitutional interpretation played--Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston show how the politics of debt relief has interacted with race and other socialhierarchies that have conditioned both state action and debtors' opportunities to mobilize. Although the twentieth and early twenty-first century saw the erosion of debt protection, history reminds us that Americans once mounted large-scale grassroots campaigns for debt relief. These activists made radical claims about economic justice, and they reshaped constitutional law and the American state"--