{"product_id":"eviction-jessica-field-9781836743576","title":"Eviction","description":"An alternative history of housing in post-war Britain – a cautionary tale of rent, precarity, and working-class resistance\nGrounded 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.\nEviction is a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52355832611104,"sku":"9781836743576","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781836743576_3095362.jpg?v=1789459151","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/eviction-jessica-field-9781836743576","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}