This book is concerned with one kind of property - privately rented housing, in one city - Edinburgh, and with those who, over the past century or so, have been able to accumulate, control and dispose of it. The book reveals the substantial and multi-faceted power of landlords over the last 100 years, and of the class of small-scale capitalists who dominated this type of investment as well as the city's politics over the period. Despite their contribution to the political success of Mrs Thatcher's "new" brand of conservatism, the material prospects of these small rentiers seem to be in terminal decline.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Basingstoke
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
maps, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 297 mm
Breite: 210 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-333-22601-8 (9780333226018)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Autor*in
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Edinburgh University
Associate Professor in Sociology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Property and social relations; landlordism and changing property relations; the political economy of place; property and political power; managing property - the new landlords; the persistence of petty landlordism; the world they have lost; property, politics and reproduction. Appendices: sampling and interviews; occupational classification; politics and property - a note on methods.
