Preface: Housing and direct action / Seán Damer
Introduction: Rent unrest : from the 1915 rent strikes to contemporary housing agitation / Neil Gray
Part I: History against the grain. 'A wondrous spectacle' : protest, class and femininity in the 1915 rent strikes / Pam Currie
What did the rent strikers do next? Women and 'The politics of the kitchen' in interwar Scotland / Annmarie Hughes and Valerie Wright
'Oary' Dundee and working class self-organization in the 1915 rent strike / Tony Cox
Spatial composition and the urbanization of capital : the 1915 Glasgow rent strikes and the housing question reconsidered / Neil Gray
Part II: Reports from the housing frontline. Everyday eviction in the twenty-first century / Vickie Cooper and Kirsteen Paton
Tenant self-organization after the Irish crisis : the Dublin Tenants Association / Michael Byrne
Rebuilding a shattered housing movement : Living Rent and contemporary private tenant struggles in Scotland / Living Rent (Emma Saunders, Kate Samuels and Dave Statham)
'Social housing not social cleansing' : contemporary housing struggles in London / Paul Watt
Part III: Rethinking the housing question : theories, aims, tactics and strategies for today. The myth and realities of rent control / Hamish Kallin and Tom Slater
The relational articulation of housing crisis and activism in post-crash Dublin, Ireland / Rory Hearne, Cian O'Callaghan, Cesare Di Feliciantonio and Rob Kitchin
'Only alternative municipal housing' : making the case for public housing then and now / Sarah Glynn
Beyond the rent strike, towards the commons : why the housing question requires activism that generates its own alternatives / Tim Joubert and Stuart Hodkinson
Afterword: The futures of housing activism / Neil Gray.