Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle

Gray, N. (Ed.) (2018) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Series: Transforming capitalism. Rowan & Littlefield International: London. ISBN 9781786605740

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Edited Books
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Gray, Dr Neil
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences; College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences
• Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield International
• ISBN: 9781786605740

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