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Author Owens, Lynn, 1970- author.

Title Cracking under pressure : narrating the decline of the Amsterdam squatters' movement / Lynn Owens.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Radicalization: The Birth of the Squatters' Movement -- 2. Luck Runs Out -- 3. Holiday Inn, Wijers Out -- 4. Death in the Movement, Death of the Movement -- 5. The End: Now, Near, or Never? -- Conclusion.
Summary "An investigation of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam, which emerged in the late 1970s as a reaction to the housing shortage of the 1960s, peaked in the early 1980s, and then fell into a period of prolonged decline. Focuses on issues relating to the decline of social movements"--Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Social movements -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
Social movements.
Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
Housing -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
Housing.
Netherlands -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Netherlands.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1945-
Since 1945
Indexed Term Sociology
Sociologie
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Social movements.
Other Form: Print version: Owens, Lynne, 1970- Cracking under pressure. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2009] 9789089640598 (OCoLC)258378992
ISBN 9789048506446 (electronic book)
9048506441 (electronic book)
1282171488
9781282171480
9789089640598 (cloth)
9089640592 (cloth)