The Fight for Rent Control : Law, Politics and the People

Watchman, Paul Q./ Robson, Peter (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399505598
• DDC分類 346.41104344

Full Description

This monograph looks at the various strands of policy and activities which produced the first residential Rent Act in 1915. It looks at the ways in which tenants were removed from the land in Ireland and Scotland leading to a strong aversion to landlords as a group. This is addressed in the way it appears in art, literature, song and poetry. It traces the ways in which actions of women-led tenants' groups before and during the First World War offered an alternative way for housing policy. Precisely how these actions linked with political and industrial forces are explored. The study concludes with how this legislation links with modern day housing policy issues.

Contents

Acknowledgements

An Introduction from the Editor
Peter Robson

1. Introduction

2. Landlord and Tenant Relationships in Glasgow 1850-1914

3. The Rent Strikes of 1915 in Context

4. Rent Increases and Rent Agitation

5. The Dominant Focus of Government

6. The Birth Pangs of a Policy on the Housing Crisis

7. The Struggle Comes to a Climax

8. The Emergence of the Rent Increase and Mortgage (War Restrictions) Act

9. The Final Countdown

Bibliography
Index