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Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956

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When the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city's notorious slums after the First World War, they wound up reproducing a Victorian class structure. How did this occur? Scheming traces the issue to class-based paternalism that caused the reification of the local class structure in the bricks and mortar of the new council housing estates.

Seán Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing poli...