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