414 Pages
by
Routledge
The American savings and loan industry began in the 1830s to help people of modest financial means buy a home. Despite the long history of the industry there has been limited scholarly work done on its early years. This collection allows an insight into the place of the savings and loans industry within the wider context of American society.
Volume 4 Serving the People: Women, Immigrants, African Americans and the Promotion of Home Ownership Introduction Defining the Role of Women in Building and Loan Adna H. Lightner, ‘Her Cigar Money’ (1893) A. Sbarboro, ‘The Beneficent Influence of Woman in Building and Loan Societies’ (1894) L. J. Wolcott, ‘Woman’s Work in Building and Loan Associations’ (1898) Lydia Cellarius, ‘Women and the Home’ (1925) Mary B. Murrell, ‘Women’s Place in the Building Association Movement’ (1893) Women as Building and Loan Leaders Minnie S. Phillips, ‘Woman’s Relation to Building and Loan Associations’ (1899) B. S. Twichell, ‘Ideals, Facts and Figures’ (1901) Nina Donberg, ‘Are Women, Good Financiers?’ (1931) Albert Shaw, History of Cooperation in the United States (1888), extract James Clarency, ‘The Laboring Man in Building Associations’ (1896) Immigrants and Building and Loan Wade H. Ellis, ‘The American Home’ (1903) George P. Thomas, ‘The Building and Loan Association and the Foreigner’ (1913) Ethnic Associations Konrad Ricker, ‘The Opinion of a Foreign-Born Citizen on the American Building and Loan Association’ (1910) Albert Wachowski, ‘The Polish Building and Loan Associations’ (1914) Albert Wachowski, ‘The Democratic Spirit of the Polish People and its Fondness for Democractic Institutions as Our Building and Loan Associations’ (1917) African Americans and Building and Loan Henry S. Rosenthal, ‘Possibilities of the Building and Loan Movement’ (1915) 1J. H. Westover, ‘Building Associations in the South’ (1896) Minority Owned Associations F. D. Wheelock, ‘A Community Asset’ (1921) I. M. Martin, Negro Managed Building and Loan Associations in Philadelphia (1936) Building and Loan as a Progressive Era Reform Robert Treat Paine, Jr, ‘Homes for the People’ (1882) Addison B. Burk, ‘The City of Homes and its Building Societies’ (1882) Reaching the Progressives Charles Barnard, ‘A Hundred Thousand Homes’ (1876) Erastus Wiman, ‘The Hope of a Home’ (1893) D. A. Tompkins, ‘Working People’s Homes’ (1903) Charles E. Clark, ‘The American Home, the Safeguard of American Liberties’ (1914) The Value of Thrif Michael J. Brown, ‘Practical Lessons on the Benefit of Thrift’ (1899) J. H. Paine, ‘The Building Association as a Place to Borrow Money’ (1899) Building and Loan and the Community Denis O’Donaghue, ‘The Building Association: Its Influence on the Community’ (1901) F. H. VorJohan, ‘The Effects of Building Associations on the Citizen and Society’ (1899) H. M. Walker, ‘Co-operation’ (1897) Building and Loan Evangelism J. R. Moorehead, ‘Are You Selling the Building and Loan Association to the Public?’ (1920) O. B. Eaton, ‘The Building and Loan: An Institution for the People’ (1910) Building and Loan and American Values F. A. Chase, ‘Citizenship and Thrift’ (1921) Geo. E. McKinnis, ‘Building and Loan Associations a Moral Force’ (1921) Walter F. McDowell, ‘The Social Value of the Savings and Loan Association’ (1922) William L. Pieplow, Century Lessons Commemorating One Hundred Years of Building and Loan Associations (1931) Morton Bodfish, The Depression Experience of Savings and Loan Associations in the United States (1935) Editorial Notes Index
Biography
David L Mason
