{"product_id":"eviction-a-social-history-of-rent-9781804298886","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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEviction \u003c\/i\u003eis a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Field\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and writer exploring power, marginality, and resistance across different contexts - from post-war British housing to contemporary forced migration. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and has lectured at UCL, Brunel University, and O.P. Jindal Global University. In 2022, Jessica won \u003ci\u003eRed Pepper \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize for her writing on tenant activism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615441092882,"sku":"9781804298886","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d2875b1-63f8-4dae-9b54-26998aab9b2d.jpg?v=1758096384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eviction-a-social-history-of-rent-9781804298886","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}