1915 Glasgow rent strikes were a series of tenant mobilizations by Glasgow, Scotland tenants opposing rent increases by landlords, who raised rents following...
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Red Clydeside (redirect from Glasgow rent strikes 1915)
1915, the rent strikers were supported by mass demonstrations and by August, the rent strikers had found widespread support in Glasgow. Rent strikes spread...
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that were experiencing rent increases. The Glasgow Women's Housing Association was led by these women and during rent strikes, women would forcibly prevent...
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Mary Barbour (category Women councillors in Glasgow)
leading the South Govan Women's Housing Association during the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915, when she actively organised tenant committees and eviction resistance...
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Mary Burns Laird (category People associated with Glasgow)
associated with the Red Clydeside movement, and supported the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915 alongside Mary Barbour, Agnes Dollan, Mary Jeff and Helen Crawfurd...
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Agnes Dollan (category Women councillors in Glasgow)
and political activist. She was a leading campaigner during the Glasgow Rent Strikes, and a founding organiser of the Women's Peace Crusade. In 1919,...
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Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915. and were described as a 'major pre-war organisational effort in support of the strikes'. As a result of the rent strikes...
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Manuel (1983). "The Industrial City and the Working-Class: The Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915". The City and The Grassroots. London: Edward Arnold. p. 27....
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introduced by the Rents and Mortgage Interest Restriction Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 97), largely as a consequence of rent strikes in Glasgow. Marchant v Charters...
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Fergusson was one of the leaders behind the rent strike in Glasgow in 1915. Before the strike, Glasgow Women's Housing Association had been formed, which...
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