Screen LibraryRent and its discontents : a century of housing struggle /
"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...
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Rowman & Littlefield International,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Transforming capitalism
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| Summary: |
"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." -- |
| Carrier Form: | xxxix, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781786605740 1786605740 9781786605757 1786605759 |
| Index Number: | HD7288 |
| CLC: |
D756.183-09 F299.561.9 |
| Call Number: | F299.561.9/R422 |
| Contents: |
Housing and direct action / Rent unrest : from the 1915 rent strikes to contemporary housing agitation / wondrous spectacle' : protest, class and femininity in the 1915 rent strikes / What did the rent strikers do next? Women and 'The politics of the kitchen' in interwar Scotland / 'Oary' Dundee and working class self-organization in the 1915 rent strike / Spatial composition and the urbanization of capital : the 1915 Glasgow rent strikes and the housing question reconsidered / Everyday eviction in the twenty-first century / Tenant self-organization after the Irish crisis : the Dublin Tenants Association / Rebuilding a shattered housing movement : Living Rent and contemporary private tenant struggles in Scotland / 'Social housing not social cleansing' : contemporary housing struggles in London / Rethinking the housing question : theories, aims, tactics and strategies for today. The myth and realities of rent control / relational articulation of housing crisis and activism in post-crash Dublin, Ireland / 'Only alternative municipal housing' : making the case for public housing then and now / Beyond the rent strike, towards the commons : why the housing question requires activism that generates its own alternatives / futures of housing activism / |