An alternative history of housing in post-war Britain – a cautionary tale of rent, precarity, and working-class resistanceGrounded 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 evictionTheir 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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
288 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Verso Books |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2026-09-15 |
| ISBN |
9781836743576 |
