Rent and its Discontents

A Century of Housing Struggle
Herausgeber: Gray, Neil

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Transforming Capitalism
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781786605740
• ISBN-10: 1786605740
• Artikelnr.: 52416117

Autorenporträt

Edited by Neil Gray

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Seán Damer, Housing and Direct Action' / Introduction: Neil Gray,
'Rent Unrest: From the 1915 Rent Strikes to Contemporary Housing Agitation'
/ Part 1: History Against the Grain / Chapter 1: Pam Currie, '"A Wondrous
Spectacle": Protest, Class and Femininity in the 1915 Rent Strikes' /
Chapter 2: Annmarie Hughes and Valerie Wright, 'What Did the Rent Strikers
Do Next? Women and "The Politics of the Kitchen" in Interwar Scotland' /
Chapter 3: Tony Cox, '"Oary"' Dundee and Working Class Self-Organization in
the 1915 Rent Strike' / Chapter 4: Neil Gray, 'Spatial Composition and the
Urbanization of Capital: The 1915 Glasgow Rent Strikes and the Housing
Question Reconsidered' / Part 2: Reports from the Housing Frontline /
Chapter 5: Vickie Cooper and Kirsteen Paton, 'Everyday Eviction in the
Twenty-First Century' / Chapter 6: Michael Byrne, 'Tenant Self-Organization
after the Irish Crisis: The Dublin Tenants Association' / Chapter 7: Living
Rent (Emma Saunders, Kate Samuels and Dave Statham), 'Rebuilding a
Shattered Housing Movement: Living Rent and Contemporary Private Tenant
Struggles in Scotland' / Chapter 8: Paul Watt, 'Social Housing Not Social
Cleansing': Contemporary Housing Struggles in London / Part 3: Rethinking
the Housing Question: Theories, Aims, Tactics and Strategies for Today /
Chapter 9: Hamish Kallin and Tom Slater, 'The Myth and Realities of Rent
Control' / Chapter 10: Rory Hearne, Cian O'Callaghan, Rob Kitchin, and
Cesare Di Feliciantonio, 'The Relational Articulation of Housing Crisis and
Activism in Post-Crash Dublin, Ireland' / Chapter 11: Sarah Glynn, '"Only
Alternative Municipal Housing"': Making the Case for Public Housing Then
and Now' / Chapter 12: Tim Joubert and Stuart Hodkinson, 'Beyond the Rent
Strike, Towards the Commons: Why the Housing Question Requires Activism
that Generates its Own Alternatives' / Afterword: Neil Gray, 'The Futures
of Housing Activism'