Scheming

A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956

Seán Damer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474440578 (ISBN)

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When the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city’s notorious slums after the First World War, they wound up reproducing a Victorian class structure. How did this occur? Scheming traces the issue to class-based paternalism that caused the reification of the local class structure in the bricks and mortar of the new council housing estates.
Seán Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow’s council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city. By combining archival research of city records with oral histories, this book lets the locals have their say about their experience as Glasgow council house tenants for the first time.

Seán Damer is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught sociology in the Universities of Strathclyde, Trinity College, Dublin, Manchester, the West of Scotland and Glasgow. Since early retirement, he has turned to creative writing, published a novel, and is working on several films and television drama series.

AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Mosspark: Homes For for Heroes?Chapter 3: Hamiltonhill: Pioneering Slum-Clearance SchemeChapter 4: West Drumoyne: Blue-CollarlandChapter 5: Blackhill: Out of the SlumsChapter 6: Craigbank: Amateur Dramatics?Chapter 7: South Pollok: “The Bundy”Chapter 8: Alarums and ExcursionsAppendix 1: Balloting for a Council HouseAppendix 2: Methodological NotesBibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2020
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781474440578 / 9781474440578
Zustand	Neuware