{"product_id":"eviction-a-social-history-of-rent","title":"Eviction: A Social History of Rent","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn alternative history of housing in post-war Britain – a cautionary tale of rent, precarity, and working-class resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEviction is a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636446162989,"sku":"9781804298886","price":43.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/0001\/8989\/files\/9781804298886.jpg?v=1771903217","url":"https:\/\/shop.redflag.org.au\/products\/eviction-a-social-history-of-rent","provider":"Red Flag Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}