Bank-Minded
Banks as Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden
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Orsi Husz's Bank-Minded examines the gradual cultural and institutional process that made banks intimate agents of daily life in welfare-state Sweden.
Drawing on rich archival research, Husz shows how wage payments, social transfers, credit cards, financial education, and bank-issued identity documents reshaped household money practices and financial subjectivities.
The book argues that this 'bankification' laid groundwork for later financialization by creating micro-infrastructures, skills, and mindsets necessary for widespread financial engagement.
It highlights intersections of class, gender, morality, and welfare-state politics in building popular adoption of banking services.
The study offers a historical perspective connecting postwar regulated welfare economies to later marketized financial practices.
Drawing on rich archival research, Husz shows how wage payments, social transfers, credit cards, financial education, and bank-issued identity documents reshaped household money practices and financial subjectivities.
The book argues that this 'bankification' laid groundwork for later financialization by creating micro-infrastructures, skills, and mindsets necessary for widespread financial engagement.
It highlights intersections of class, gender, morality, and welfare-state politics in building popular adoption of banking services.
The study offers a historical perspective connecting postwar regulated welfare economies to later marketized financial practices.
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Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
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Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
