{"product_id":"eviction-1","title":"Eviction","description":"An alternative history of housing in post-war Britain – a cautionary tale of rent, precarity, and working-class resistance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.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\u003eEviction is a history of the British housing crisis in microcosm.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58801574576463,"sku":"9781836743576","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/6fb667c446b94d77a6d8fe3d900ef0249781836743576_1.jpg?v=1789615103","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/eviction-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}