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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Housing, Social Policy and the State
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Property Relations and Housing Policy: Oldham in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 3. State, Class and Housing: Glasgow 1885-1919
- 4. Housing Policy in Leeds Between the Wars
- 5. Clydeside Housing and the Evolution of State Rent Control, 1900-1939
- 6. The Standard of Council Housing in Inter-war North Shields -A Case Study in the Politics of Reproduction
- 7. Class Struggle, Social Policy and State Structure: Central-Local Relations and Housing Policy, 1919-1939
- Notes on Contributors
- Selected Dates in Housing
- Index
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