Eviction (eBook)

A Social History of Rent

Jessica Field (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | Ebook UK & RoW
355 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-80429-889-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Grounded in personal experience, Eviction uncovers a hidden history of housing injustice and working-class resistance in what has become a perennial battleground for social conflict in modern Britain.In 2017, Jessica Field's parents and more than a hundred of their neighbours received warning of imminent eviction. Their corporate landlord intended to demolish their affordable, privately rented homes to replace them with middle-class houses for sale. Led by the women of the estate, tenants launched an anti-eviction campaign to save their close-knit community from destruction.The neighbourhood was the last remnant of a 1950s National Coal Board estate constructed to house local miners. When the coal industry declined in the 1970s, whole estates were auctioned off to speculators. Low-income tenants were at the mercy of global investors. Houses were left to rot. Rents soared. Tenants were exploited every step of the way. Yet time and again, tenant activists - especially women - fought back.Eviction is a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2025
• Zusatzinfo: B/W images throughout
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Council • Economics • Feminism • Finance • Gentrification • History • Housing • Labour • Landlord • Leeds • left • local government • miners • municipalism • NCB • Non-fiction • Philosophy • Politics • radical • Right to Buy • Socialism • tenant rights • welfare • Women’s rights • Workers
• ISBN-10: 1-80429-889-1 / 1804298891
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80429-889-3 / 9781804298893