{"product_id":"eviction-a-social-history-of-rent-9781836743576","title":"Eviction: A Social History of Rent","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn alternative history of housing in post-war Britain - a cautionary tale of rent, precarity, and working-class resistance\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrounded in personal experience, \u003ci\u003eEviction \u003c\/i\u003euncovers 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEviction \u003c\/i\u003eis a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836743576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Jessica Field","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53239972331701,"sku":"9781836743576","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781836743576.jpg?v=1788974980","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eviction-a-social-history-of-rent-9781836743576","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}