Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781786605740)

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.

Author: Neil Gray
ISBN-10: 1786605740
ISBN-13: 9781786605740
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2018
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d