The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984
Table of Contents

• About the Editors and Contributors
  
• Preface
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction (Ronald Lawson)
  
• Abbreviations

• A Pictorial History
  (Ronald Lawson)

• Chapter 1: The Landlord as Czar -- Pre-World War I Tenant Activity
  (Jenna Weissman Joselit)

• Chapter 2: New York City Tenant Organizations and the Post-World War I Housing Crisis
  (Joseph A. Spencer)
  
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Notes

• Chapter 3: From Eviction Resistance to Rent Control -- Tenant Activism in the Great Depression
  (Mark Naison)
  
  • Introduction
  • The Harlem Tenants League
  • Communists in the Lead: Early Depression Eviction Protests and Rent Strikes
  • The Battle of the Bronx
  • Housing Reform and the Roots of the City-Wide Tenants Council
  • The Rebirth of Activism
  • The Citywide Tenants Council
  • The Wartime Tenants Movement and the Struggle for Rent Control: Organizational Diffusion and Political Success
  • Notes

• Chapter 4: Tenant Power in the Liberal City, 1943-1971
  (Joel Schwartz)
  
  • Introduction
  • Rent Wars, 1943-1955
  • Title I: Challenge and Response, 1949 - 1963
  • Rent Strikes and Community Power, 1962 - 1971
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes

• Chapter 5: Tenant Responses to the Urban Housing Crisis, 1970-1984
  (Ronald Lawson with the assistance of Reuben B. Johnson III)
  
  • A Watershed for the Tenant Movement, 1970 - 1975
  • Recognition, Prosperity, Expansion, and Frustrations, 1976-1984
  • New Displacement Targets: Redlining and Gentrification
  • The Political Thrust
  • An Emerging National Focus and Structure
  • Tenant Impact: Retrospect and Prospect
  • Notes

• Index of Names and Subjects