A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism

Mike Berry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXV, 240 Seiten

2024 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-24473-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Zusatzinfo	XXV, 240 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	Capitalism • class structure • financialization • Gentrification • Home • Housing Policy • Marxism • owner application • property lobby • Rent • resistance • Slums • state intervention
ISBN-10	3-031-24473-7 / 3031244737
ISBN-13	978-3-031-24473-5 / 9783031244735
Zustand	Neuware