Cracking under pressure
Subtitle: narrating the decline of the Amsterdam squatters' movement
By: Lynn Owens.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780271034621
Subjects: Social movements -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam; Housing -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam; Netherlands -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.