Rent Strikes
- Created by: Rebecca
- Created on: 28-04-13 21:09
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Why? --->
- Industrial expansion - Glasgow (1915) - workers migrating to the central belt to contribute to war effort (shipbuilding, munitions)
- Workers took what they could get ---> high prices, low standards.
- Demands for housing soared, landlords simply increased the prices of rent. (Govan - rents rose by around 20%)
- Landlords took advantage of the fact that the men were fighting in the armed forces…
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