Excerpts from an interview with Karen, Liz and Tracy about the informal economy of Cork's Northside. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Description
Excerpt 1: About Didlums and informal economy.
Excerpt 2: About the informal economy.
Excerpt 3: Getting loans from a Manage.
Excerpt 4: Financial difficulties and the use of the informal economy in factories.
Excerpt 5: Reasons for not getting involved in MABS(Money Advice and Budgeting Service).
Excerpt 6: Reasons for not getting involved in credit unions.
Excerpt 7: Positive aspect of MABS in court situations.
Excerpt 8: Moneylenders are the banks of the very poor.
Excerpt 9: The way the moneylenders operate.
Excerpt 10: Difference between the credit union and the moneylender.
Excerpt 11: Buying and selling cheques as another for of moneylending.
Excerpt 12: Borrowing under different names and without a husband's signature.
Excerpt 13: Lone women parents, male guarantors and moneylenders.
Excerpt 14: Facing ESB disconnection if in debt with Hire Purchase scheme.
Excerpt 15: Ordinary people acting as money lenders.
Excerpt 16: Legal money lenders as threatening as illegal ones, the eternal cycle of debt.
Excerpt 17: Legal money lenders not marking books as a way to increase interest.
Excerpt 18: Narrative about reporting an abusive and dishonest, rent man who used fake rent books to the corporation.
Excerpt 19: The mechanism of eviction in 1995.
Excerpt 20: Pawnshops, pawning sheets with holes in the middle.
Excerpt 21: The end of pawnshops and the number of rings for sale in them.
Excerpt 22: Not knowing how to manage money, how the mother kept all money issues to herself.
Excerpt 2: About the informal economy.
Excerpt 3: Getting loans from a Manage.
Excerpt 4: Financial difficulties and the use of the informal economy in factories.
Excerpt 5: Reasons for not getting involved in MABS(Money Advice and Budgeting Service).
Excerpt 6: Reasons for not getting involved in credit unions.
Excerpt 7: Positive aspect of MABS in court situations.
Excerpt 8: Moneylenders are the banks of the very poor.
Excerpt 9: The way the moneylenders operate.
Excerpt 10: Difference between the credit union and the moneylender.
Excerpt 11: Buying and selling cheques as another for of moneylending.
Excerpt 12: Borrowing under different names and without a husband's signature.
Excerpt 13: Lone women parents, male guarantors and moneylenders.
Excerpt 14: Facing ESB disconnection if in debt with Hire Purchase scheme.
Excerpt 15: Ordinary people acting as money lenders.
Excerpt 16: Legal money lenders as threatening as illegal ones, the eternal cycle of debt.
Excerpt 17: Legal money lenders not marking books as a way to increase interest.
Excerpt 18: Narrative about reporting an abusive and dishonest, rent man who used fake rent books to the corporation.
Excerpt 19: The mechanism of eviction in 1995.
Excerpt 20: Pawnshops, pawning sheets with holes in the middle.
Excerpt 21: The end of pawnshops and the number of rings for sale in them.
Excerpt 22: Not knowing how to manage money, how the mother kept all money issues to herself.
Date
27/02/1996
Identifier
UCCFEA_SR00035_WAVC
Citation
“Excerpts from an interview with Karen, Liz and Tracy about the informal economy of Cork's Northside. For this interview's catalogue entry click here,” UCCFEA, accessed April 29, 2024, http://epu.ucc.ie/folklore/items/show/454.