Perriton, Linda orcid.org/0000-0002-9109-5767 and Maltby, Josephine Anne (2015) Working-Class Households and Savings in England, 1850–1880. Enterprise & society. pp. 413-445. ISSN 1467-2227
Abstract
The British trustee savings banks that operated throughout the nineteenth century were designed expressly for working-class use, and solely to promote long-term saving. Despite the substantial numbers and national spread of these banks, there have been few studies of their use by savers. Their neglect as a data source is puzzling, given the extent of the surviving depositor records that provide long-run empirical data that includes savers’ identity, marital status, and occupation, as well as account balances and transactions. Our preliminary work on four banks (Limehouse, Newcastle, South Shields, and Bury) shows results of significant interest in understanding working-class financial behavior, including a substantial number of accounts opened and maintained by working-class married women, accounts opened and run by minors from earnings, and varied patterns of account usage.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) The Authors 2015. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Enterprise and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Savings Banks,19th century,England,financial management,working class households |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2015 16:49 |
Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2025 00:04 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2014.34 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/eso.2014.34 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83921 |
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