TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samy, Antoninus
TI  - The Building Society Promise : Access, Risk, and Efficiency 1880-1939
T2  - Oxford historical monographs
SN  - 9780198787808
U1  - 332.3209 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Savings and loan associations--Evaluation
KW  - Savings and loan associations
N1  - Include Illustration and Index
N2  - 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.
ER  -