by Asef Bayat (Author)
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, an active political movement emerged on the streets of Iran's largest cities. Poor people began to construct their own communities on unused urban lands, creating an infrastructure--roads, electricity, running water, garbage collection, and shelters--all their own. As the Iranian government attempted to evict these illegal settlers, they resisted--fiercely and ultimately successfully. This is the story of their economic and political strategies.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 23 Apr 1998
ISBN 10: 0231108591
ISBN 13: 9780231108591
Book Overview: The story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s.