{"product_id":"eviction-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEviction \u003c\/i\u003eis a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 15 September 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 198 mm; Width 129 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Verso Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781836743576\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Jessica Field","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50249574940922,"sku":"9781836743576","price":9.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781836743576.jpg?v=1788823988","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/eviction-9781836743576","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}