Bankminded

This open access book explores the history of how banks and banking serviceshave become part of everyday life. Taking welfare state Sweden as its setting, thebook identifies key cultural challenges and shows how banks and financecompanies made inroads into the workplace, the family, spaces of consumptionand the world of social movements while also taking on tasks typically associatedwith state authorities. Focusing on this bankification of everyday life reveals thehistorical links between the post-war welfare state and the financialised everydayculture of the late twentieth century. This book will be of interest to scholars ofeconomic and cultural history and sociology, as well as those interested in thehistory of welfare states and the development of commercial surveillance.