Financial Justice
eBook - PDF

Financial Justice

The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Financial Justice

The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse

About this book

This provocative and accessible narrative recounts the inside story of how a broad-based people's campaign was mobilized and subsequently succeeded in pushing Congress to create a consumer financial regulator with clout. What would Congress do—if anything—to tame Wall Street and the nation's lenders following the financial meltdown of 2008? This book tells the true story of how an alliance of consumer, civil rights, labor, fair lending, and other progressive groups emerged to effectively challenge Wall Street and its official protectors and to win substantial new legislative reforms—actions that resulted in the Dodd-Frank Act and its path-breaking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Based largely on in-depth interviews with the leading activists involved in the campaign, Financial Justice: The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse taps into the world of contemporary citizen movements to present evidence into the conditions that determine the success and failure of social movement campaigns. It goes well beyond general, global variables, such as "effective management, " to show how the formal and informal rules adopted by a campaign can serve to preclude fragmentation and incoherence.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781440829512
eBook ISBN
9781440829529
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. How Did We Ever Get into This Mess?
  7. 2. Elizabeth Warren Has a Notion
  8. 3. The Magic Moment for Reform
  9. 4. Activists Need Leaders, Too
  10. 5. Coalescing the Coalition
  11. 6. The Battle in the House
  12. 7. Wanted: A Few Votes in the Senate
  13. 8. Auto Dealers Drive for an Exemption
  14. 9. Preemption: The Role of State Reformers
  15. 10. What Did the Advocates Accomplish and How?
  16. Afterword: Backward and Forward with Elizabeth Warren
  17. Notes
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Index