{"title": "Rent and Its Discontents", "subjects": ["Public housing", "Housing policy", "Housing, great britain", "Rent", "History", "Housing"], "key": "/works/OL21628607W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2732122A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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.\" --"}, "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-25T08:11:37.303921"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-10T19:42:55.301784"}}