Financial Institutions and Social Transformations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. An Industry in Transition: Regulation, Restructuring and Renewal

   • David Knights

   Pages 1-27

3. The Dialectic of the Value Form: the Social Evolution of Capital Markets in the US

   • Tony Tinker

   Pages 28-46

4. Suburban Subjects: Financial Services and the New Right

   • Christopher Grey

   Pages 47-67

5. The Acrobat of Desire: Consumer Credit and its Linkages to Modern Consumerism

   • Michael Shaoul

   Pages 68-91

6. Bringing the Consumer In: Sales Networks in Retail Banking in New Zealand

   • Terry Austrin

   Pages 92-116

7. Financial Services in Transition: an Examination of Market and Regulatory Forces in Denmark and the UK

   • Jon Sundbo

   Pages 117-134

8. Stability or Transformation of Employment Relations in German Banking

   • Michael Muller

   Pages 135-157

9. Marketing the Soul: from the Ideology of Consumption to Consumer Subjectivity

   • David Knights, Andrew Sturdy

   Pages 158-188

10. The Japanese Main Bank Relationship: Governance or Competitive Strategy?

    • Mark J. Scher

    Pages 189-214

11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-222

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This book seeks to draw together a series of theoretical and empirical contributions from several countries including the US, Japan, the UK, and Germany. The chapters differ from a majority of writings on the financial sector in that they are not dominated by economic or finance issues but are concerned with social or sociological implications, conditions and consequence of current charges in financial services.

• bank
• banking
• capital
• capital market
• consumer
• evolution
• Institution
• Nation
• Retail Banking
• service
• sociology
• transformation

• Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK

  David Knights

• Baruch College, City University of New York, USA

  Tony Tinker

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