Eviction by Jessica Field

Eviction by Jessica Field

An alternative history of housing in post-war Britain - a cautionary tale of rent, precarity, and working-class resistance

This story of a community that suffered from terrible treatment at the hands of their landlord, as well as very bad conditions, is shockingIt is a story that must be told in order to prevent such exploitation from happening in the future. I hope many people in the housing world will read this book and take its lessons to heart. Brilliantly written, and told through the eyes of a resident, it is doubly powerful. This gripping book also highlights the particularly active role of women in housing and community issues. -- Anne Power, author of Cities For a Small Continent
Rooted in a deeply personal account of the residents' fight to save one condemned estate, Jessica Field's fine book charts wider, often women-led, renters' struggles and provides a powerful critique of the broader iniquities and insecurities of both private and public rental sectors. -- John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams

Jessica Field is a historian and writer exploring power, marginality, and resistance across different contexts - from post-war British housing to contemporary forced migration. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and has lectured at UCL, Brunel University, and O.P. Jindal Global University. In 2022, Jessica won Red Pepper magazine's Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize for her writing on tenant activism.

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ISBN 13	9781804298886
ISBN 10	1804298883
Title	Eviction
Author	Jessica Field
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	2025-09-16
Number of pages	288
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