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 |