... were able to sufficiently document their conformity to certain standards of behavior. In the years that followed, the New York State Legislature would make it increasingly difficult for rent-regulated tenants to maintain control of their leases, creating mandatory decontrol provisions for apartments...

... with speculative lessees who became landlords, appropriated both land and houses from independ- ent producers who could no longer control space as a resource for their own production. In the urban instance, "enclosed" land pro- duced building rents rather than cash crops. The reorganization...

... the patriarchal institutions that distribute the jobs to women? And as for the rent-free houses and squatter settlements, do the women who built the houses control access to sewage lines, to electricity, and to other utilities? Have they cut through the layers of corruption and extra-legal bureaucracy...

... and socialization implied that young husbands had less elder assistance in subordinating their wives, and that young wives who entered the patrilocal track could push more successfully to leave it if subjected to old-style arrange- ments of elder rule. Third, old-style rural patriarchs controlled less...

... . . . curtain. The conuentillo, however, was more than scenery. Tenements, hous- ing conditions, and rents were for decades (and still are) among the most important political issues for the urban working classes of Buenos Aires. The sainete dramatized the political struggle over tene...

... dig out the history of each of those little towns, you'd find that there were steelworkers elected to office, that they had pretty tough programs in terms of rent control, things of this kind, in other words, that they tried—and not for the last time— working within the Democratic Party...

... lesbian cultural workers presented their creations to overflowing crowds, everything free, sometimes we had to have a second showing, with women filling up the 1928 tiled hallway as they waited their turn. The kindness of neighbors in this rent-­controlled building on Ninety-­Second Street, New York...

... Populist, defined speculation so narrowly that even charging rent on land remained acceptable. "Despite his avowal that 'natural justice' guaranteed the fruits of a per- son's toil to that individual," Palmer writes, "Nugent said nothing about landlords who rented their own land to tenants...

... nationalists, in many ways, forced the change from Curzon’s coercive colonial strategies to Hardinge’s search for British Indian symbolism in the colonial built environment. Older colonial methods of domination and control became increas- ingly less effective as the base of the Indian independence...

... the Cornintern was. They joined the CP COMMUNISM 99 because they wanted to free the Scottsboro boys, lower their rents, fight discrimination in employment, or get a taste of racial equality in the Party’s cultural and social life. Such limited reform...

... was also characterized by contin• ual class struggle: conflicts over rents, prices and wages among peasants and landlords, peasants and merchants, artisans and merchants; and conflicts over taxes between peasants and officials.20 If a combination of state-controlled waterworks, self...

... including the emergence and emotional function of queer archives, the influence of the geographic setting of an archive, efforts to control history, and the continuing politics of grassroots archives. queer archival generations Archival Justice An Interview with Ben Power Alwin K. J. Rawson...

... between western Europe and other parts of the world. The principle dynamic in this articulation is that as Europe developed it began to specialize in commodities that paid higher rents. Com- WHERE WAS THE PERIPHERY? / 29 modities that paid lower rents...

... implemented Governor Creel’s law forcing the sale of municipal lands. A year later, half the families were being charged rent for their plots because they lacked proper titles. Municipal officials sold or rented the commons to ranchers, hacenda- dos, and state politicians. In 1906 Namiquipan...

... in February 1837, a flurry of printed notices appeared on New York City street corners and in the city’s newspapers: “bread, meat, rent, fuel! — their prices must come down!” “The Voices of the People Shall be Heard, and Will Prevail!” “The People will meet in the Park, rain or shine, at four o’clock...

... white control, for autonomy both as in- dividuals and as members of a community itself being transformed as a result of emancipation. Before the war, free blacks had created a net- work of churches, schools and mutual benefit societies, while slaves had forged a semi-autonomous culture...

... that the agency’s own data were misleading: when examining agency files listed as “satisfactorily closed,” the review found that nearly half had either moved to unsatisfactory housing or been forced to accept major rent increases. 59 SoMa residents, as low-income elders, also knew that the type of housing...

... of empirical shop practice by laboratory analysis of materials and the design of machinery that could be tended by less refractory labor; and David Montgomery has suggested that elaboration of man- agerial controls deprived some workers of autonomy which prior mechanization had not entirely...

... the land, on the evolution of state policies of regulation and control, and on the politics and culture of more permanent black communities. Much less well-known and researched are the politics of migrant workers in the cities, and of those communities in the process of becoming urban...

... conditions found a sympathetic hearing among workers. Moreover his proposal that government confiscate all land-values through a ”single tax” on ground rents made sense to the organized labor of a city plagued by rent-gouging, overcrowding, and the speculative control of land development .7...