Thrift, Morality, and Migration in the Barbados Savings Bank

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI:10.1093/hwj/dbad004

Joan Flores-Villalobos

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Abstract

There has been little historiographical attention to working-class banking in the Caribbean. This article adds to the scholarship by considering the founding and use of the Barbados Savings Bank by working-class Black Barbadians. Colonial administrators hoped the bank would teach formerly enslaved Barbadians how to properly transition into the free wage labor force and sought to encourage household arrangements dependent on a male breadwinner who would use the bank for long-term savings. Using the new depositor ledgers of the Barbados Savings Bank, I argue that everyday Barbadians instead used this financial institution as a family repository of targeted savings for the purpose of emigration, defying colonial desires of a dependent workforce organized in patriarchal single-income households.

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巴巴多斯储蓄银行的节俭、道德和移民

历史上很少有人关注加勒比地区的工薪阶层银行业。这篇文章通过考虑巴巴多斯工薪阶层黑人创建和使用巴巴多斯储蓄银行来增加学术研究。殖民地管理人员希望该银行能教会以前被奴役的巴巴多斯人如何正确地过渡到自由工资的劳动力队伍中，并试图鼓励依赖男性养家糊口者的家庭安排，后者将使用该银行进行长期储蓄。使用巴巴多斯储蓄银行的新储户分类账，我认为，每天的巴巴多斯人都把这家金融机构作为移民的目标储蓄库，无视父权制单收入家庭中依赖劳动力的殖民欲望。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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