Sean Damer

Scheming (eBook, ePUB)

A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive social history of six Glasgow housing schemes in the first half of the twentieth century

• Provides a short history of the different national inter- and post-war Housing Acts
• Interrogates how the Corporation of Glasgow interpreted this legislation to develop and implement its housing estate construction and management policy
• Combines oral histories and Glasgow Corporation records to provide a comprehensive and balanced account
• Presents detailed case studies from six housing schemes: Mosspark, Hamiltonhill, West Drumoyne, Blackhill, Craigbank and South Pollok

When the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city's notorious slums after the First World War, they wound up reproducing a Victorian class structure. How did this occur? Scheming traces the issue to class-based paternalism that caused the reification of the local class structure in the bricks and mortar of the new council housing estates.

Seán Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city. By combining archival research of city records with oral histories, this book lets the locals have their say about their experience as Glasgow council house tenants for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474440592
• Artikelnr.: 55405713

Autorenporträt

Seán Damer is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught sociology in the Universities of Strathclyde, Trinity College, Dublin, Manchester, the West of Scotland and Glasgow. Since early retirement, he has turned to creative writing, published a novel, and is working on several films and television drama series.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Mosspark: Homes For for Heroes?
Chapter 3: Hamiltonhill: Pioneering Slum-Clearance Scheme
Chapter 4: West Drumoyne: Blue-Collarland
Chapter 5: Blackhill: Out of the Slums
Chapter 6: Craigbank: Amateur Dramatics?
Chapter 7: South Pollok: "The Bundy"
Chapter 8: Alarums and Excursions
Appendix 1: Balloting for a Council House
Appendix 2: Methodological Notes
Bibliography