Eviction : A Social History of Rent
Eviction : A Social History of Rent
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 16/09/2025,
Pagination: 288 pages, B/W images throughout,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Verso Books,
Published By: Verso Books,
Book Classification: United Kingdom, Great Britain,
Dimensions: 149 x 219 x 25
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781804298886
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.
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