The chapters differ from a majority of writings on the financial sector in that they are not dominated by economic or finance issues but are concerned with social or sociological implications, conditions and consequence of current charges in financial services.

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - An Industry in Transition: Regulation, Restructuring and Renewal; D.Knights - The Dialectic of the Value Form: The Social Evolution of Capital Markets in the US; T.Tinker - Suburban Subjects: Financial Services and the New Rights; C.Grey - The Acrobat of Desire: Consumer Credit and its Linkages to Modern Consumerism; M.Shaoul - Bringing the Consumer in: Sales Networks in Retail Banking in New Zealand; T.Austrin - Financial Services in Transition: An Examination of Market and Regulatory Forces in Denmark and the UK; J.Sundbo - Stability or Transformation of Employment Relations in German Banking; M.Muller - Marketing the Soul: From the Ideology of Consumption to Consumer Subjectivity; D.Knights and A.Sturdy - The Japanese Main Bank Relationship: Governance or Competitive Strategy?; M.J.Scher - Index