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A comprehensive social history of six Glasgow housing schemes in the first half of the twentieth century. When the Corporation of Glasgow undertook a massive programme of council house construction to replace the city's notorious slums after the First World War, they wound up reproducing a Victorian class structure. How did this occur? Scheming traces the issue to class-based paternalism that caused the reification of the local class structure in the bricks and mortar of the new council housing estates. Seán Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city. By combining archival research of city records with oral histories, this book lets the locals have their say about their experience as Glasgow council house tenants for the first time.

Public housing --- Social classes --- Discrimination in housing --- Fair housing --- Housing, Discrimination in --- Open housing --- Race discrimination in housing --- Segregation in housing --- Housing --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Government housing projects --- Social housing --- Low-income housing --- History --- Glasgow (Scotland). --- Corporation of the City of Glasgow (Scotland) --- Corporation of Glasgow (Scotland) --- Glasgow Corporation (Scotland) --- Glasgow City Corporation (Scotland) --- History.