Rent and its Discontents (eBook)

A Century of Housing Struggle

Neil Gray (Herausgeber)

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2018
294 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-576-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

lt;span>Neil Gray is an urban researcher, writer and lecturer and a long-term housing activist. He is currently working as a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow.

Inhalt

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’

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Transforming Capitalism
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 6 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Charts.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Capitalism • Urban • Urban Geography
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-576-7 / 1786605767
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-576-4 / 9781786605764