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A global, comparative history of tenants' movements. Since the late nineteenth century, tenants across various historical and geographic contexts have engaged in collective action, including rent strikes, to improve their standard of living. Rent Strikes brings together an international cohort of researchers to identify common patterns and global trajectories in this rich history, spanning from the early twentieth century to the COVID-19 pandemic. Encompassing various continents and periods, it explores tenants' struggles on both the local and national levels in North and Latin America, Northern and Southern Europe, and Oceania. Not only does this volume expand the scope of previous studies to consider the role of ethnicity, nationality, and gender in tenant mobilization, but it also aims to engage a wider audience beyond academia, including activists, policymakers, and the general public interested in housing.

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Lucas Poy is a social and labour historian specializing in the history of social democracy and the labour movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a fellow at the International Institute of Social History. Hannes Rolf is an urban, social and labour historian specializing in the history of the labour and cooperative movements and the history of housing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is an assistant professor at the Institute of Urban History, Department of History, Stockholm University.

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