Credit and Civilization Tim Newton Email: tim.academic@gmail.com Bio: Tim Newton has held the Chair in Organisation and Society at the University of Exeter, having previously taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Edinburgh. His texts include Nature and Sociology (Routledge, 2007) and ‘Managing’ Stress: Emotion and Power at Work (Sage, 1995), and he has served on the editorial boards of Sociology and Organization Studies. Copyright Note: This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript (post-print) of an article published in the British Journal of Sociology, 2003, 54 (3): 347-371. The copyright is held by John Wiley & Sons , and the definitive published version is available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2003.00347.x/abstract DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2003.00347.x It has been uploaded in accordance with SHERPA/RoMEO open access guidelines: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/