Grounded 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 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. Eviction is a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.
| Autor | 
                                                                    Jessica Field | 
                        
|---|---|
| Vydavateľ | 
                                                                    Verso Books | 
                        
| Jazyk | anglický | 
| Väzba | Hardback | 
| Počet strán | 288 | 
| Formát | 149 x 219 x 25 | 
| Hmotnosť | 366 | 
| EAN | 9781804298886 | 
| Rok vydania | 2025 | 
| Edícia | 
                                                                    História |