A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-24470-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

This book provides the first coherent Marxist analysis of the central importance of housing in the social reproduction of capitalism as a whole. Rather than consigning housing to the sidelines, Berry argues that the circulation of capital and revenues though housing and the built environment helps explain how the capital-labour relation constrains housing outcomes while also being reproduced on an extended scale. He shows how housing is provided by the intervention of building, property and interest-bearing capital fractions; how the land question can be explained by a theory of urban land rent, drawing on Marx's categories of differential and monopoly rent; how housing is vital to the extended reproduction of labour power, while also creating a semi-separate sphere of 'home' in which gender and demographic factors overlay and accentuate social class position. The modes, impact and drivers of state intervention in housing provision are seen to modify the patterns and pace of capital circulation through housing and the urban built environment with implications for shifts in class fragmentation and power relations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Building from First Principles                                      

Part I    Housing as a Commodity

Chapter 2: Housing as a use value                                                

Chapter 3: The Production of Housing                                                                 

Chapter 4: The Realisation of Housing

Part II   Housing as a Land-use

Chapter 5: The Territorial Imperative

Chapter 6: The Theory of Urban Land Rent

Chapter 7: Landed Property: An Historical Excursion

Part III: Housing and Social Reproduction

Chapter 8: The Extended Reproduction of Labour Power

Chapter 9: The Social Construction of the Home 1: Culture

Chapter 10: The Social Construction of the Home 2: Gender and Age

Chapter 11: Housing and Class in the neoliberal Era

Part IV: Housing and the State

Chapter 12: Housing and the Myth of the ‘Free Market’

Chapter 13: Housing, Wealth and Power

Chapter 14: The Housing – Macro Nexus

Part V: Navigating the Future

Chapter 15: The Project: Architect Not Bee

Chapter 16: Countering the Counter-Attack

Chapter 17: Concluding Comments – the Limits to Capital

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Berry is Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia.