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Eviction: A Social History of Rent

Eviction: A Social History of Rent

Field, Jessica

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistoryPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 1804298883
ISBN13: 9781804298886
Publisher: Verso
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
An alternative history of housing in post-war Britain - a cautionary tale of rent, precarity, and working-class resistance

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.

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