Description
| Product ID: | 9781786605757 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Transforming Capitalism |
| Title: | Rent and its Discontents |
| Subtitle: | A Century of Housing Struggle |
| Authors: | Author: Neil Gray |
| Page Count: | 294 |
| Subjects: | Regional / International studies, Regional studies, Urban communities, Geopolitics, Urban communities, Geopolitics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-08-19 |
