
Housing, Social Policy and the State
Joseph Melling(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2025
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-041-06686-6 (ISBN)
Description
The topic of housing is central to urban history as well as to social policy. Historians have focussed either on local conditions or national developments, but until first publication of this book in 1980, there had been few systematic attempts to relate local amenities to general policy. The essays provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of housing, blending original local studies with a novel theoretical perspective on the development of social policy. Covering a wide geographical area, the book focusses on housing conditions within the locality surveyed and the intervention of both local and central government in the provision of working-class dwellings. The studies relate specific cases to general problems of economic and social development and changes in class relations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
433 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-06686-6 (9781041066866)
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Content
1.Introduction Joseph Melling 2. Property Relations and Housing Policy: Oldham in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Caroline Beade 3. State, Class and Housing: Glasgow 1885-1919 Sean Damer 4. Housing Policy in Leeds Between the Wars Robert Finnigan 5. Clydeside Housing and the Evolution of State Rent Control, 1900-1939 Joseph Melling 6. The Standard of Council Housing in Inter-War North Shields - A Case Study in the Politics of Reproduction David Byrne 7. Class Struggle, Social Policy and State Structure: Central-Local Relations and Housing Policy, 1919-1939 Jennifer Dale.
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