Eviction

A Social History of Rent

15,95 €

inkl. MwSt. und Versand · Lieferzeit 1–2 Werktage

Gesetzliche Gewährleistung: 2 Jahre · Details

Nur noch 3 verfügbar

Beschreibung

Grounded in personal experience, <i>Eviction </i>uncovers a hidden history of housing injustice and working-class resistance in what has become a perennial battleground for social conflict in modern Britain.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>Eviction </i>is a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781836743576

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 129 x 26 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Verso Books