Rent and its Discontents : A Century of Housing Struggle Hardback
Edited by Neil Gray
Part of the Transforming Capitalism series
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The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century.
With the decimation of social housing and the resurgence of a profoundly exploitative private housing market, the contemporary political economy of housing now shares many distressing features with the situation one hundred years ago.
Starting with a re-appraisal of the Rent Strikes, this book asks what housing campaigners can learn today from a proven organisational victory for the working class.
A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies of current urban resistance, seeking to make a vital contribution to the contemporary housing question in a time of crisis.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:294 pages, Illustrations, unspecified; Charts; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Phot
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:16/09/2018
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- ISBN:9781786605740
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:294 pages, Illustrations, unspecified; Charts; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Phot
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:16/09/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786605740
