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Rent strikes: Poor man’s weapon

The Harlem rent strikes provided some unexpected lessons for the poor

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  • Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power by Kenneth B. Clark (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), explores the implications of powerlessness in the ghetto on the psychology of individuals and on the viability of political movements.

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  • Neighborhood Groups and Urban Renewal by J. Clarence Davies, III (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966). One of the few systematic studies of the interaction of political organizations and city agencies at the neighborhood level.

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  • The Symbolic Uses of Politics, by Murray Edelman (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1964) is a highly suggestive study of the symbolic meaning of government activity and the ways such activity affects political consciousness and activism.

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  1. University of Wisconsin, USA

    Michael Lipsky (Assistant professor of Political Science, Staff Associate)

  2. Institute for Research on Poverty, USA

    Michael Lipsky (Assistant professor of Political Science, Staff Associate)

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Lipsky, M. Rent strikes: Poor man’s weapon. Trans-action 6, 10–15 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02806270

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