Beschreibung:
This book is concerned with one kind of property - privately rented housing, in one city - Edinburgh, and with those who, over the past century or so, have been able to accumulate, control and dispose of it.
Property and social relations; landlordism and changing property relations; the political economy of place; property and political power; managing property - the new landlords; the persistence of petty landlordism; the world they have lost; property, politics and reproduction. Appendices: sampling and interviews; occupational classification; politics and property - a note on methods.