Although rent strikes are normally against high or increased rents, the focus may also be on poor maintenance of housing, as in Harlem in the 1960s.
A.2.a. Rent Strikes
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Brill, Harry Why Organizers Fail: The Story of a Rent Strike, Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1971 , pp. 192
Examines community action by the poor; (in Californian Studies of Urbanization and Environment series).
Jackson, Mandi Harlem’s Rent Strike and Rat War: Representation, Housing Access and Tenant Resistance in New York 1938-1964, Vol. 47, issue 1, 2006 , pp. 53-71
The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984, ed. Lawson, Ronald; Naison, Mark, New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1986 , pp. 289
See also the article by Ronald Lawson, The Rent Strike in New York City 1904-1980: The End of a Social Movement Strategy, 1984 , pp. 235-258
Lipsky, Michael Protest in City Politics: Rent Strikes, Housing and the Power of the Poor, Chicago, Rand McNally, 1970 , pp. 214
Moorhouse, Bert; Wilson, Mary; Chamberlain, Chris Rent Strikes – Direct Action and the Working Class, In Ralph Miliband, John Saville, The Socialist Register, 1972, London, Merlin Press, 1972 , pp. 133-156
Starts with account of major rent strikes on the Clyde in 1915 and 1921-26, but includes materials on rent strikes in London 1959-61 and 1968-70 and their implications.
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